International Medical Travel Journal: News
- Increasing waiting times may result in more people seeking NHS-funded healthcare abroad, with the NHS required to approve their requests in all but a...
- The Open Cures Initiative is seeking volunteers to undertake some research on whether or not medical tourism can help longevity.
The open volunteer...
- According to the Saudi Commission for Tourism & Antiquities (SCTA), a record number of 22.7 million tourists visited Saudi Arabia last year,...
- The number of foreign patients who visited Korean hospitals for medical treatment was a record 81,789 in 2010, up 36 % from the previous year, says...
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Chiang Mai in Thailand will serve as a test bed for new ways of applying information and communication technology to make optimum use of local...
- The debate in the Cayman Islands on the wisdom of allowing overseas owned investors to push the potential for local medical tourism development is...
- One of the popular trends in travel at the moment is spa and sport. A Mintel report on health and wellness travel said that one in three British...
- DNV is supporting Slovenian healthcare authorities in their drive to improve patient safety and quality of care. The first two certificates to the...
- Jamaica is taking a logical approach to developing medical tourism by developing a road map to define the country's priorities. A report prepared by...
- Cross-border health care is a growing phenomenon in the European Union. When in need of medical treatment, patients increasingly act as informed...
- A new article in Globalization and Health looks at the impact of medical tourism on the health systems of Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore....
- Obesity should be formally recognised as a chronic disease, campaigners urge, saying Europe is in the grip of an obesity epidemic with half its...
- The South Korean government is happy that cosmetic surgery attracts many medical tourists who spend more than normal travellers. But it also wants to...
- According to a recent (but very small) survey by International Board of Medicine and Surgery (IBMS) of medical providers and medical tourism agencies...
- Australians are heading overseas in increasing numbers, according to CQ University economist Anita Medhekar. She believes Australia’s high...
- Two islands, one off Africa and the other off America, have differing fortunes in medical tourism.
Mauritius expects the number of foreign patients...
- The Malaysian government will offer tax exemptions to all private hospitals that are willing to transform their institutions into medical tourism...
- A new article in Globalisation and Health looks at the potential for co-operation between the UK and India in medical tourism. Globalization and...
- A study for the Missouri Hospital Association into domestic medical tourism suggests that medical travel created over 3,000 jobs and generated $124...
- The capital city of San Jose is the destination of choice for medical tourists to Costa Rica, but other destinations are developing too. Clínica...
