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Stem cell therapies show medical tourism’s darker side.

At Treatment Abroad, we recently received correspondence regarding a UK family’s experience of stem cell tourism. The patient is a four year old boy...

South Korea may be a latecomer but may be the industry’s big winners

South Korea is a country that has come late to the medical tourism game, but it may in the long term become one of...

Can this newest business make a splash?

A new medical tourism venture, Fly2Cosmetic, backed by San Serriffe based Laprofilo Private Equity Partners, will be launching in Europe and the USA in...

Five ways in which the IMTJ Medical Travel Summit is different

What makes the IMTJ Medical Travel Summit so unique? Discover how the 2017 Summit will differ from other events within the industry. I checked the...

10 tips for presenting at a medical tourism event

Have you ever sat through a presentation at a medical tourism conference and thought, “Why did I bother?” With several medical tourism conferences coming...

Bringing healthcare to the international patient

Access to medical expertise, a higher quality of care and a better outcome is one of the main drivers of medical travel. But with...

Can we make any predictions from previous recessions?

How will the medical tourism sector fare in a global recession that's affecting everything from house prices to car sales to polar bears and...

Cross-border healthcare could cause a surge of patient numbers from abroad

Will European hospitals see a surge in patient numbers following the approval of the EU Directive on Cross-Border Healthcare by the European Parliament last...

More and more attention is being drawn to quality of treatment abroad

The growth of medical tourism is attracting more and more attention to issues such as quality of treatment, accreditation of surgeons and dentists, hospitals...

Correction… The medical tourism industry is nine times smaller than we thought!

Is the medical tourism market really worth $439 billion dollars? Keith Pollard revisits the claims from the Medical Tourism Association (MTA) and sets the...