New medical tourism destination planned for South Africa
A large new health and wellness centre to be developed in South Africa will be the first of its kind in the world, says...
Will changes to donation payment help solve the lack of UK sperm and eggs...
Will the changes in the remuneration of egg and sperm donors in the UK affect the number of British couples that seek fertility treatment abroad?...
Government allows private for-profit hospitals in Korea
The South Korean government plans to ease rules in the nation's free economic zones (FEZs) to allow foreign medical institutes to more easily set...
Swiss healthcare – the gold standard?
Switzerland is often cited by the medical tourism industry as having excellent quality healthcare to match other top performers such as Germany. Switzerland is...
Government sponsored medical tourism under pressure in Dubai, Nigeria and Turks and Caicos
The government of the Turks and Caicos Islands has followed Dubai and Nigeria with a public declaration of the need to drastically cut government...
Do standards need to have a regional flavour?
In his Second Opinion column, Dr Constantine Constantinides from healthCare cybernetics questions the need for and motivation behind the development of regional standards, certification,...
What drives medical tourism: New report from the Economist Intelligence Unit
A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit 'Travelling for health: the potential for medical tourism', has some surprising results when it looks at...
Fortis forecasts 10% revenue generation from medical tourism in three years
Indian hospital group, Fortis Healthcare, has been an early proponent of medical tourism. Now it expects to get 10% of its Indian revenue from...
American run hospital in Panama achieves JCI certification
In Panama City, a hospital run by Johns Hopkins Medicine has become the first in the country to receive JCI international accreditation. Hospital Punta...
Serious ethical concerns on Chinese organ transplant tourism
Important ethical questions are raised by the growth of "transplant tourism". The long waiting lists for body parts in many developed countries, and the...
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