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Global medical prices will keep rising in 2019
The 2019 Global Medical Trends Survey suggests that medical prices will keep rising in 2019. China, India and Malaysia rises could exceed 10%. Ian...
Obstacles and opportunities in American healthcare
In the second of their two-part series on the US health insurance market and medical travel opportunities, Irving Stackpole and Elizabeth Ziemba look at...
Inter-regional travel shows biggest increase
While global tourism is booming, the biggest increase is inter-regional travel within Asia, Europe and Latin America according to the World Travel Monitor by...
Ambitious target for Malaysia medical tourism growth in 2019
MHTC attract RM20 million to promote medical tourism in Malaysia, but must deliver 25% growth in one year.
Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council is now officially...
Risks of cheap breast implant tourism to Tunisia
Inkyfada reports that French women are travelling to Tunisia for cheap breast implants, but some have reported problems.
Tunisian news organization Inkyfada has provided new...
Fed crackdown on US birth tourism
19 people have now been charged in the USA in the first federal crackdown on birth tourism businesses. Birth tourism itself is not illegal...
China, USA, Germany top for tourism revenue
The total number of global tourists in 2018 reached 1.279 billion, an increase of 580 million people over 2017, with a growth rate of...
Tijuana surgeon contesting US class action
Last year, Americans who had surgery in Tijuana, Mexico, returned home with dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections. The Mexican government temporarily closed Grand View Hospital, where...
5% increase in surgical cosmetic procedures
The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) annual Global Aesthetic Survey for procedures completed in 2017 showed an overall increase of 5% in surgical cosmetic...
Treat 2018 Turkish medical tourism data with caution
The Turkish Ministry of Health figures for the first half of 2018 shows 178,000 international patients. Caution is needed in analysing this data; not...
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