Medical tourism conferences and roadshows in the Middle East
India's Ministry of Tourism (MoT) will organise medical tourism road shows in the Middle East this October, in a bid to increase medical tourism...
Insurance required for travel to and from Oman
Oman is open for tourism and health tourism, with rules on compulsory health insurance for inbound and outbound travellers. The thousands of Omanis who...
Thailand’s plan for wealthier medical tourists
The Thai cabinet has approved, in principle, a medical treatment visa scheme to attract wealthier foreign tourists who can afford to pay for medical...
Growth in medical travel to Argentina
According to data from the Argentine Chamber of Medical Tourism (CATM), in 2019, the country received a monthly average of 1,000 foreigners seeking surgeries...
Florida seeks to control clinics
US state Florida promotes itself as a medical tourism destination but 8 deaths at a group of clinics may lead to state legislation.
Senator Anita...
MediCzech to offer quality medical treatment in the Czech Republic to the UK market
MediCzech, a brand of Progress Medical, will start offering its services in the UK as of 1 March 2011. Initially, complex bariatric treatments and...
How medical tourism can help Europe fight chronic obesity
Obesity should be formally recognised as a chronic disease, campaigners urge, saying Europe is in the grip of an obesity epidemic with half its...
Law allows wider investment in the Saudi healthcare market
The Saudi Council of Ministers has approved amendments to the Private Health Institutes Law. The law now allows overseas private investors to own, operate...
USA, China, Russia and Brazil excluded from EU’s safe country list
The EU has approved a list of 14 safe countries from where travellers can visit Europe in July. The EU list remains only a...
Hair Transplants: A flagship for medical tourism?
In the last decade, the hair transplant industry grew by 192% according to the International Society Of Hair Restorations, helped in part by lowering...