September 23, 2011
Chinese hotel manager Hong Chun had trouble using chopsticks after a minor stroke and sought treatment at a large Shanghai hospital where doctors injected what they said were donor stem cells into his spinal cord and buttocks, according to his … Read More
August 24, 2011
April 22 – 27, 2012Maldives Islands Exotic Medical Tourism Congress & Expo 2012 is the unique event on beautiful Maldives that brings together business, adventure, networking and relaxation. This congress serves as an excellent platform to discuss strategies and trends … Read More
August 17, 2011
Medical tourist arrival in Malaysia is anticipated to reach around US$ 775,000 by 2014, growing at a CAGR of around 19% during 2011-2014, acknowledged RNCOS in its latest research report. (SBWire)
August 17, 2011
The Indian medical tourism market is growing at an excellent rate and currently witnessing a high inflow of international patients who come to India for medical treatments due to the country’s lower healthcare costs and various other advantages. With this … Read More
August 16, 2011
New Zealand gets a very small amount of inbound medical tourists despite attempts to use language and culture as a way of attracting Americans to it rather than the much lower cost Asian countries. There is more outbound medical tourism, … Read More
August 16, 2011
One of the “big issues†for discussion in medical tourism in the USA is whether healthcare reform will encourage employers to stop paying for healthcare. Various arguments and ‘statistics’ have been put forward to suggest that US healthcare reform will … Read More
August 16, 2011
Tourism Minister Patrice Minors is actively exploring the expansion of medical tourism as a way to fill Bermuda’s empty hotel beds. (The Royal Gazette Online)
August 15, 2011
If your summer vacation is over, you may be thinking of your next trip to a sunny clime. There’s a new way to get it for free. Become friends with a Hartford city employee, preferably one in need of a … Read More
June 24, 2011
The South Korea government has announced that from 2012, foreign patients will be able to get compensation if they fall victim to medical malpractice in South Korea. Currently, there is no proper compensation system for foreign patients on malpractice as … Read More
June 24, 2011
Medical tourism across the world has been through difficult times in the last couple of years, and has not been immune to the global economic downturn. The UK outbound medical tourism market has suffered; spending on “discretionary†healthcare has fallen, … Read More
June 24, 2011
July 12, 2011 Maldives Islands Exotic Medical Tourism Congress & Expo is the unique, globally organized event dedicated specifically to reproductive and fertility tourism with special focus on surrogacy and egg donation. Global fertility resources, clinics of reproductive technologies, fertility … Read More
June 15, 2011
In its 4th year, the World Medical Tourism Congress promises to be the best one yet, featuring up to 1500 attendees, 100+ speakers and sponsors from over 87 countries. This year’s theme “Patients in Emerging Markets” will focus on some … Read More
June 14, 2011
Kosovo government yesterday expressed its commitment to cooperate with the EU in the probe into a Council of Europe report linking the prime minister and others to human organ-trafficking. (Gulf Times)
June 13, 2011
Thailand’s largest private hospital operator is shopping for New Zealand health software and technology as it seeks to cater to the booming medical tourism market. (Stuff.co.nz)
June 3, 2011
Vietnamese women who bore babies for foreign couples in an illegal surrogacy ring in Thailand said they suffered sexual abuse at the hands of the gang, a newspaper reported Thursday. (AFP)
May 27, 2011
Two years ago, Brendan King turned to a medical-tourism company to help book his trip. The Campbell River, B.C., man was on his way to Costa Rica to receive a controversial treatment for his multiple sclerosis. The “liberation” treatment isn’t … Read More
May 13, 2011
Luis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed cinder-block house in a Managua, Nicaragua, slum and said he’d found a way to escape poverty and start a new … Read More
May 5, 2011
It is little surprise that when health care in the West became more expensive, more and more people began shopping around not only for cheap flights, but also for hospitals and medical treatment. (GulfNews.com)
May 4, 2011
A conference, The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges on May 20-21 is sponsored by The Petrieâ€Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics and the Harvard University Program on Ethics and Health. It will take place … Read More
April 29, 2011
Canadian transplant surgeons are debating the ethics of transplanting the organs of foreign nationals. In some cases, according to the National Post, a surgeon wanted to operate on a foreign patient, but the hospital would not let him. Some hospitals … Read More
April 27, 2011
The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) has just weighed in on reproductive tourism. The press release claims that “ESHRE sets standards for Cross Border Reproductive Care,” which sounds promising. It lists what seem at first glance to be several sensible, if … Read More
April 25, 2011
The 14-week-old twins a pregnant Laurie Thompson is carrying don’t belong to her. Conceived with donor eggs, they are the children of a same-sex couple from Spain who turned to Thompson because paid surrogacy is illegal in their country, the … Read More
April 25, 2011
It is described as one of the fastest growing areas of medical “tourism” although that is a word none of those undertaking this journey like to use. But is it costing too much in terms of emotional, physical and financial stress? … Read More
April 25, 2011
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f5c3be/emerging_medical_t) has announced the addition of the “Emerging Medical Tourism in Turkey” report to their offering. Turkey has emerged as one of the most popular destinations in Europe for medical tourism. The country’s medical tourism industry has unprecedentedly … Read More
April 5, 2011
When my father had a toothache, he saw a dentist in Boston who recommended a root canal and dental crown costing about $2,000. He decided to wait until he was in India, his native land, for holidays and had the … Read More
