The Top Ten List of Popular Cosmetic Surgery Procedures Contains a Few Surprises
Cosmetic/plastic surgery has become so common worldwide, and people have become so well-informed about the wide range of information associated to the topic, that I feel like there could be a popular...
View ArticleVietnam and Cambodia Eyeing a Piece of the Medical Tourism Pie
In the booming world of medical tourism, Southeast Asia is making a very strong showing. Advanced medical treatments like hip replacements can be had in modern facilities in Singapore for about 25% of...
View ArticleSouth Korea Gears Up for Medical Tourism Growth
Over the past several years, South Korea has developed a well-earned reputation as a leading – if not the leading – medical tourism destination for cosmetic procedures. People from all over the world,...
View ArticleNew Hotel Certification Program Aims to Define Friendly Hotels for Medical...
In much of the West, people have been trying to cope with rising healthcare costs for years. In developing countries, others have had to deal with substandard care. Both situations have largely...
View ArticleSurges in South Korea: Medical Tourism and International Medical Events
As in countries like China and Singapore, the South Korea health care system has recently experienced an increase in the amount of medical tourists it welcomes. That’s because people are really...
View ArticleSeveral Countries Show Their Commitment to Medical Tourism by Establishing...
To paraphrase the late-`80’s Hollywood baseball-drama Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.” In the film, this message pertains to a baseball field and baseball players, but we’re seeing...
View ArticleMalaysia’s Got What it Takes to Become a Leading Medical Tourism Destination
In 2012, nearly 700,000 patients from around the world visited Malaysia for healthcare; and, according to data from 72 private clinics and hospitals registered with the MHTC (Malaysia Healthcare Travel...
View ArticleWill New Restrictions on Commercial Surrogacy Effect Fertility Tourism in India?
Infertility is a common problem with a variety of causes. Just looking at the numbers published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 10 percent of American women between...
View ArticleMedical Tourism Sets its Sights on the Chinese Luxury Traveler
As China’s remarkable development as a global economic power continues, businesses and industries around the world are taking aim at Chinese consumers. The middle and upper classes have attained...
View ArticleChina’s Seeking its Share of the Growing Medical Tourism Market
China is a land of contrasts. It’s a country of rich traditions mixed with thriving capitalism; a vast and varied landscape that covers seven time zones; wide-ranging economic and social developments...
View ArticleHow are the “Bangkok Shutdown” Protests Affecting Medical Tourists in Thailand?
For the past two months, uncertainty and mass demonstrations have hounded the government of Thailand’s beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Starting on Monday, January 13th 2014, outspoken...
View ArticleA Scientific Breakthrough Generates Pluripotent Stem Cells without the Use of...
Stem cell research is providing amazing and highly promising possibilities to treat disease, and it gives us hope that someday there will be cures for the incurable. It is also fraught with...
View ArticleWill Australia Become a Top Destination for Medical Tourists?
Sometimes it seems like the rich just keep getting richer, and one place where this phenomenon frequently occurs is in professional sports. Take, for example, the venerable English football club...
View ArticleThe Big Reveal: These Five Countries Provide the Best Healthcare in the World
International Living is a magazine and website offering expertise on places where people can live lives “cheaper...healthier...safer...freer... than you ever thought possible.” The information they...
View ArticleMalaysia and the UAE Hope to Attract a Greater Share of Medical Tourists from...
We’ve written often about the places where medical tourists are coming from, where they’re heading, what types of treatments they’re seeking, and how much money they're spending. And given the...
View ArticleThe Great State of Florida Envisions Itself as a Top-Tier Medical Travel...
We can all agree that when it comes to individual human beings, we like what we like. As such, every nation on earth possesses its own special charms and reasons for why people want to be there. For...
View ArticleNigeria Aims to Stop the Flow of Outbound Medical Tourists
Yin and yang aren’t simply concepts in Chinese philosophy or Traditional Chinese Medicine. They’ve become commonplace terms in the English lexicon indicating almost any two things in direct opposition...
View ArticleKorean Plastic Surgeons Send Patients Home with New Looks, and a New Form of ID
Everybody loves the old “double-take” in comedy: when a performer – in an act of surprise – glances at something, looks away, and then quickly looks back in shock or amazement.
View ArticleA New Initiative Aims to Increase Dubai’s Medical Tourism Arrivals to...
Back in March we wrote a post detailing the UAE’s plans to attract more medical tourists from GCC countries. The aim is to keep these patients home, so to speak, instead of watching them head further...
View ArticleEthiopia Hopes to Become a Health Tourism Hub with New Medical Zone in Addis...
myMEDholiday.com tries to share with medical tourists our knowledge of where to travel abroad for less expensive healthcare. The site offers a look into 24 of the top medical tourism countries from the...
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