The Organization for OECD estimates that nearly 50 million patients travel abroad for medical treatment every year. According to the OECD analysis, by 2019 the global medical tourism market could achieve a turnover of more than $60 billion.
In a world of swiftly-changing politics and economics, people who battle life-threatening diseases competes with challenges. Jason Girard relayed his thoughts how Brexit might affect the free commerce of the UK, including the promotion of medical tourism.
The CMTP certification provides healthcare professionals, travel agents, facilitators, insurance agents, and HR professionals. This knowledge provides designees with information that is unavailable to their company and essential to career development.
The cost of artificial organ transplants, countries that focus on attracting medical tourists could greatly benefit. Analyst projections show Asia as the fastest-growing market for artificial organs and related surgeries and medications.
Over the last 10 years, I have traveled to more than 30 countries and met thousands of people with different backgrounds, cultures. Whether for personal or professional purposes all travel includes some basic must-haves to ensure comforts and conveniences.
Former Detroit Superstar Gordie Howe crossed the border into Mexico to receive a controversial stem-cell therapy treatment. The treatment became necessary after he suffered a series of strokes in the months prior that paralyzed his right side.
According to the WHO conditions such as preterm birth intrapartum-related complications and infections are the primary causes of death. For babies and children post neonatal to five years old the main causes of death are diarrhea malaria and pneumonia.
Co-organized by the MTA in partnership with the Hainan government and Beijing Great-Idea Business Resource Company Ltd. International hospitals at the conference had the opportunity to meet with top Chinese Facilitators.
WorldMed Assist, a medical tourism company, helped me get an autologous stem cell transplant performed at Anadolu Medical Center. Just after 2011, I started seeing ads on my computer screen every time I logged on to search for potential new FDA studies.
Ageism is symptomatic of a nation that is in the throes of its own historical adolescence, a transient society. Youth, at any age, appears to be a desirable social currency juvenilization, characterized by the loss of cultural memory and losing our place.
French medicine is very progressive and emerged after Lyon has stunned the world by a transplant of both hands and forearms. Many remember France as a place for relaxation and gastronomic experiences, Paris is about climbing the Eifel Tower.
According to the NIH, there is limited evidence to support the effectiveness of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). When it comes to patients choosing TCM over Western medicine for life-threatening conditions there is less debate and more agreement.
Recently, Dubai transformed itself in order to attract world travelers, focusing on strengthening the Dubai healthcare system. The Ministry of Health is projecting that by 2020, more than one million medical tourists will visit Dubai each year.
15 years ago we started noticing international visitors coming to Puerto Rico to visit Sononuclear RP for PET CT scans. We were the first in the Caribbean to offer this technology making it accessible to patients without having to travel to the U.S.
Washington, D.C., will serve as host to many business travelers from September to November apart from being Home to the President. Due to the pleasant weather and lack of traditional tourists, this time of year is noted as the best time to visit D.C.
GSD is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of this year's World Medical Tourism and Global Health Congress. GSD is the premier provider of health services at all levels of care in all specialties for the Italian National Health System for the last fifteen years.
Indiana University Health has built a thriving program in treating cancer care and putting an emphasis on personalized services. The growth of the Indiana University Health program is notable in the competitive world of medical tourism.
Health resorts first came to the forefront as an option for travel, there were just a few dozen of Destination Spas. Destination spas were different than resort spas as they would truly have an educational component to the vacation.
The biggest change will occur is that we will be moving to an individualized medicine profile, we focus on population health. We realized at NASA that individuals are very unique to the point where someone may be down in cholesterol in their arteries.
Typically spinal cord injury patients undergo surgery that stabilizes the spine but generally does little to restore motor or sensory function. While the subject of stem cell therapy clinical trial on the quantifiable benefits of stem cell research.
