Carlos Zavala Ruiz has more than 16 years of experience in the healthcare and in 2004 he became the Director of Hospital Angeles Tijuana. One of Mr. Zavala's main goals is to offer the services of Angeles Hospital to the healthcare carriers in the U.S.
Stem Cell treatments and related therapies are gaining popularity, consumer of medical care tell the effective and best treatments. Always find out what the claims of other companies are and how they substantiate these claims.
Patients travel for care for various reasons like the availability of specialized treatments access to the long wait times. Making and reconciling payments in medical tourism - mostly large and crossing international borders can be challenging.
As the cost of hip and knee replacement vary, patients are comparing the cost and quality of doctors and hospitals abroad. Many patients contemplating medical tourism opportunities cited an interest in orthopedic surgery including hip and knee replacements.
Along the cobblestone streets of Nogales, the Reed family follows in the same footsteps of early Spanish Conquistadors. Americans who live on fixed incomes and can’t afford supplemental medical insurance are looking long and hard.
The worldwide telehealth market is worth $6.5 billion and it is making a shift in the provision of traditional healthcare services. The telehealth industry uses information and technology to deliver healthcare services from a distance.
For decades, Tampa, the third-most populated city in Florida, has been an ideal destination for those retired from their job. Tampa is also a premier destination for tourism of all kinds; particularly, within the medical community.
Sadly, there are lots of groundless assertions concerning cancer circulate in the media, due to unreliable internet and newspaper. Prostate cancer has not escaped this farrago of insubstantial claims, warning makes men more vulnerable to prostate cancer.
Scientific research illustrates that medical tourism will become an essential part of the global economy in the 21st century. Foreign patients spent about $200 million in Poland in 2009 on medical tourism. That figure increased by 20 percent two years later.
Traveling can be time-consuming and despite these difficulties, medical tourism has enjoyed a 4,000-year-old history. Ancient archives show that Sumerians built flowing pools and temples around spas that served as wellness centers for thousands of annual visitors.
At some point, statistics, pie charts and nonsensical committees designed to monitor a problem simply pour vinegar into ongoing wounds. While data and statistics are most certainly important, there has to be a tipping point.
Rising wealth, top-heavy population pyramid, NCDs, and cultural factors have fuelled a boom in outbound Chinese medical tourism. Many will use their new-found wealth to take advantage of plastic surgery, dentistry and wellness programs in Korea or Southeast Asia.
Until the government responds to calls to immunize all children from meningitis B, parents in the UK may continue to seek out private doctors. Policymakers cited budgetary restraints for denying entry into the year-old immunization program beyond babies aged 2-6 months.
Surgery just got complicated, hard to identify and difficult to trace, this risk has doctors and hospital administrations in emergency mode. The digital high alert reached a peak earlier this month when ransomware prompted administrators at a Southern California Hospital.
After more than a decade boarding plane to Europe, Asia, Latin America to treat patients, doctors can finally fight prostate cancer in the U.S. That's because the FDA gave American surgeons the go-ahead to perform High-Intensity Focal Ultrasound.
Proton therapy, which grabbed international headlines when five-year-old Asha King was removed from a UK hospital last year. However, less than 50 proton centers operate worldwide including 19 in the United States and 21 in Europe.
The procedure, dubbed Abdominal Etching, enables cosmetic surgeons to create a more visible muscular definition in the male torso. The liposuction technique is designed for men who are relatively fit, but desire a leaner, chiseled abdominal appearance.
Immunotherapy is a new class of cancer-fighting medicines that have not been used and left untouched for several times. Immunotherapy, credited with ridding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter of cancer, is a potential asset to medical tourism patients.
China where the costs of cancer and the drugs used in their treatments can overwhelm even the most robust health systems. In India, every 50 seconds a person dies of cancer, the health ministry has sought inexpensive forms of Herceptin.
Adult stem cells treatments are traced to undifferentiated cells found throughout the body that divide to replenish dying cells. Despite the relaxed government oversight, the potential to ease suffering and reverse their disease is too hard to ignore.
