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Australia’s Ramsay Health Care ups bid for Capio AB
Ramsay Health Care has upped its offer to buy pan-European healthcare company Capio AB from €661m to €783m, in spite of Capio’s plans to...
Investigation into UK gender selection service
An investigation by the Daily Mail has identified ‘at least’ four doctors in private IVF clinics who are offering the first stages in gender...
Turkey the most obese country in Europe
WHO obesity research, conducted in 51 countries, reveals that 32.1% of Turks are obese.
Obesity is one of the greatest health challenges of the 21st...
Health tourism flows in and out of China
According to a new report 'China Health Tourism' by the China Tourism Academy, more than two million Chinese travel annually for health tourism, including...
Why hasn’t Croatia’s tourist boom happened?
A documentary by German television company WDR has explored the reasons why Croatia's predicted tourism boom in 2018 has not happened. It concludes Croatia...
Malaysia Expects 2m Medical Tourists By 2020
The Malaysian Ministry of Finance expects the number of medical tourists to increase significantly to two million by 2020, following the tax exemption for...
How far must Africans travel for treatment?
People across Africa often have to travel long distances to get to a hospital. New research works out how far. The best served countries...
Should tourists have to buy health insurance?
Egypt and Oman are looking to make all tourists buy health insurance, but Ecuador is reversing the rule.
An increasing number of countries have or...
Spain’s health system is resilient despite the economic downturn
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies has released a new health system review on Spain. It details the resilience of the health...
China’s Shanghai targets medical tourists
Shanghai wants 14 million international tourists, including medical tourists. It has rolled out 30 measures to upgrade its international reputation as a tourist destination.
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