UNITED STATES: Chinese summer camp for overweight US teens
UNITED STATES: Chinese summer camp for overweight US teens Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:14:15 GMT Iowa-based China Connection Global Healthcare (CCGH) is spearheading the new Fitness and Culture Experience for Teens, an eight-week summer camp in China for overweight American teenagers. Organised in coordination with China’s Aimin Weight Reduction Hospital, the programme will offer 40 […]
MALTA: Treatment Abroad appoints first overseas franchisee
MALTA: Treatment Abroad appoints first overseas franchisee Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:20:17 GMT Intuition Communications, which runs leading online medical travel portal Treatment Abroad, has appointed In Malta Online Group – its first overseas franchisee – to operate the Treatment in Malta website. The new site will be aimed at inbound medical tourists to Malta. […]
EUROPE: European medical travel site
EUROPE: European medical travel site Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:25:50 GMT A website that offers information mainly to UK and Ireland residents seeking treatment in the UK, Ireland, Europe and elsewhere, suggests that fewer people are going abroad for treatment. RevaHealth.com is a healthcare search engine with information about 60,000 clinics in the UK and […]
MALAYSIA: National medical tourism figures for 2008 revealed
MALAYSIA: National medical tourism figures for 2008 revealed Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:30:47 GMT About 370,000 foreigners sought medical treatment in Malaysia in 2008, according to health minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai. Over the years, the country’s medical tourism industry has registered annual growth of 30 percent. The minister spoke at the awarding of […]
MEXICO: A million medical tourists each year?
MEXICO: A million medical tourists each year? Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:35:11 GMT Astonishing new figures from researchers suggest that every year over a million Mexican and non-Mexican US residents travel from the US to Mexico for medical, dental, cosmetic and other treatment. Even on 2001 data, well before the establishment of a US/Mexico medical […]
USA: Obama promises healthcare reform
USA: Obama promises healthcare reform Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:56:54 GMT Long-term problems in US healthcare have been a driving force in Americans going overseas for treatment. Many agencies and overseas hospitals have based business plans on this continuing and increasing. If President Obama succeeds in the most dramatic reform of the US healthcare system […]
USA: Hospital accreditation the way it was meant to be
USA: Hospital accreditation the way it was meant to be Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:23:13 GMT Highly collaborative annual surveys that don’t dictate policies and templates, but trigger the talent and know-how of hospital staff to find the absolute best way to do things is the message that a new rival to JCI is putting over, […]
MEDIA: Medical Tourism Talk Radio launched
MEDIA: Medical Tourism Talk Radio launched Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:58:16 GMT The world’s first medical travel and medical tourism radio has launched on the internet. Executive producer and founder Julie Munro explains Medical Travel and Tourism Talk Radio is the voice of medical travel and a voice for patients. We want healthcare consumers around […]
KOREA: Medical interpreters and Muslim medical tourists
KOREA: Medical interpreters and Muslim medical tourists Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:15:33 GMT The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has offered 40 travel agents and guides a lecture on Islamic culture and introduced a Halal food lunchbox and tour programs tailor-made for Muslims in a bid to attract more Muslim tourists. The biggest obstacle to attracting […]
CHINA: Government cracking down on organ trade
CHINA: Government cracking down on organ trade Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:13:30 GMT One of the seamier aspects of medical tourism is on the wane, but sadly not yet killed. While countries are cracking down on legal commercial transplantation, an illegal trade has been taking its place in other developing nations. China will investigate illegal […]