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Chinese outbound numbers rising
Outbound Chinese medical tourism is on the rise, with claims of over half a million travelling overseas for health care.
Outbound Chinese medical tourism is...
Development of 11 medicities commences
The Indo UK Institute of Health (IUIH), supported by Healthcare UK, has commenced development work for two out of eleven 1,000 bed medicity sites.
Healthcare...
Medical tourism centre opens in Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City has opened the first medical tourism centre in the city, in the General Hospital Sai Gon.
The Department of Health in...
FDA approves first gene therapy
FDA approval brings first gene therapy to the United States for treating cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved...
Pakistan seek to promote hair and organ transplants
Pakistan seeks to promote hair transplant and organ transplant medical tourism.
Pakistan seeks to promote hair transplant and organ transplant medical tourism.
The Asian Hair Research...
Dental tourism injustice in Mexico
A new study suggests that dental tourism industry practices in Los Algodones, Mexico reinforce structural injustices and exploitation.
A new study led by Krystyna Adams...
New data on Mexican medical and health tourism
New campaigns promote medical and health tourism to Mexico but there are doubts on claimed numbers.
In 2016, more than one million foreign patients travelled...
Further restrictions on travel to USA
President Trump issued an executive order that bans travel from eight countries — six of which have majority Muslim populations — indefinitely.
President Donald Trump...
Medical tourism law still being debated in Israel
The Health Ministry has submitted a bill to allow medical tourism in all hospitals in Israel.
The Knesset Committee is discussing the law. After a...
More hospitals needed to support growing demand in MENA
The MENA region is lagging behind other developed economies and needs more hospital beds.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is lagging behind...
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