Medical Tourism in Thailand: When Treatment Costs and Starbucks Clash
A 75-year-old Omani, who traveled to Thailand for cardiovascular care and instead tested the resolve of that nation’s medical tourism industry after he was diagnosed with Middle East Respiratory...
View ArticleMedical Tourism: U.S. Hospitals Forge Foreign Relations with Middle East
New prosthetic limbs are in their future, but that’s for another day when the girls grow older. Just a few years ago, the twin toddlers from Gaza took their first steps, and that seemed like a miracle...
View ArticleMedical Tourism: Travel Agents Rerouting Business Plans
After a traffic accident took both her limbs, Susha Bashayreh is back on her feet again after completing three weeks of rehabilitation at Dubai Healthcare City where new sockets and liners for her...
View ArticleMedical Tourism Training: Dominican Republic Ready to Play Ball
Nobody thought he’d play baseball again, not even the doctor who, half-a decade ago in the Dominican Republic, treated the right rotator cuff and ailing elbow of New York Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon...
View ArticleMagical Realism: Colombia Get a Leg Up from Medical Tourism
Surgery sounded like it was going to cost Edward Janssen an arm and a leg. Even though he had medical insurance, out-of-pocket expenses incurred under the new healthcare provisions would force the...
View ArticleWellHotel™: Puerto Rico Enterprises Certified for Medical Tourism
Puerto Rico, considered one of the top- five selling destinations in the Caribbean, remains on the radar of international travelers. Travel experts point to the hospitality industry, which took a...
View ArticlePuerto Rico Points to Medical Tourism Training
A personal touch may not have meant much to Marcy Heistand at first, until the harsh realities of a tumor somewhere between her lungs and chest slapped her hard in the stomach. For sure she felt the...
View ArticleChoosing the Right International Patient Management Platform
Technology plays a vital role in any business, and medical tourism is no different. While many international patient departments and medical tourism facilitators continue to use excel spreadsheets,...
View ArticleKeyhole Cancer Surgery: Is Medical Tourism Open to Cutting-Edge Surgery?
Her hormones were apparently fine – even though she was 42 years old and premenopausal. Scott Baio, the actor on “See Dad Run” and “Happy Days” past, knows now that a tumor in the lining of her brain...
View ArticleGrasping Dreams: Hand Transplants Greet Medical Tourism Markets
He wants to hold a puppy. He wants to lift his sister, too. Roughly a month into therapy and probably two years before he is capable of gaining full motion, Zion Harvey dreams that he has the whole...
View ArticleCollapse of the Canadian Healthcare System
At some point, statistics, pie charts and nonsensical committees designed to monitor a problem simply pour vinegar into ongoing wounds. Welcome to the stagnation of the Canadian Healthcare System....
View ArticleChinese Medical Tourism: A New Wave
Rising wealth, an increasingly top-heavy population pyramid, more non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and cultural factors have combined to fuel a boom in outbound Chinese medical tourism. By 2024, the...
View ArticleEgypt and Medical Tourism: What is… and What Could Be
“Medical tourism can be a tremendous benefit to healthcare consumers both inside and outside of Egypt” Traveling can be time-consuming, wearing and even very risky in any period. Despite these...
View ArticleA Scientific View from Polish Researchers
Scientific research provides reasonable grounds to believe that medical tourism will become an essential element of the global economy during the 21st century and an export product of special...
View Article5 Prostate Factor Myths You Should Know
Unfortunately, lots of myths and groundless assertions concerning cancer circulate in the media, mainly incorporated to the unreliable internet or even newspaper articles which are read and deemed as...
View ArticleReclaiming the American Dream in Tampa: Stem Cell Therapy and Medical Tourism
For decades, Tampa, the third-most populated city in Florida, has been an ideal retirement destination. Beloved for consistent, almost year-round warmth and invulnerability to hurricanes and tropical...
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Telehealth: Implications for Medical Tourism
The worldwide telehealth market is forecast to be worth $6.5 billion by 2020, marking a shift in the provision of traditional healthcare services. And with many national healthcare services facing...
View ArticleAll Abroad: Hip, Knee Replacements Drive Underinsured to Medical Tourism
For a complete 2015 Medical Tourism Survey, visit https://medicaltourismassociation.com/en/prod33_2015-Medical-Tourism-Survey.html As the cost of hip and knee replacement continues to vary across the...
View ArticleMagical Realism: Colombia Get a Leg Up from Medical Tourism
Surgery sounded like it was going to cost Edward Janssen an arm and a leg. Even though he had medical insurance, out-of-pocket expenses incurred under the new healthcare provisions would force the...
View ArticleWellHotel™: Puerto Rico Enterprises Certified for Medical Tourism
Puerto Rico, considered one of the top- five selling destinations in the Caribbean, remains on the radar of international travelers. Travel experts point to the hospitality industry, which took a...
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