Cayman Islands: HCCI clinic opens
Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) reports that their Cayman Brac clinic has opened. The new clinic provides specialised and tertiary type hospital services for...
Limits to USA hospital price transparency
In spite of a new price transparency rule that requires all USA hospitals to publish the prices of common health services, comparing prices across...
Reducing outbound medical travel from Qatar
A new healthcare law with compulsory insurance, and better local healthcare in Qatar, is likely to reduce outbound medical tourism.
The draft law will make...
Expanding healthcare options in Dubai
The healthcare market for international patients is growing in Dubai. Fakeeh University Hospital, a smart health-care facility, has now opened, and the Dubai Health...
New CEO for Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council
Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC) has announced the appointment of En. Mohd Daud Mohd Arif as its new CEO.
En. Mohd Daud previously served as...
Oman bans medical travel to India
Omanis with medical visas for India have been ordered not to travel.
Just as Omanis were being allowed to go to India with a medical...
USA ‘Do Not Travel’ bans
The U.S. State Department has issued travel bans to over 100 countries including many Americans’ favourite medical tourism destinations.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose...
Hair Transplants: A flagship for medical tourism?
In the last decade, the hair transplant industry grew by 192% according to the International Society Of Hair Restorations, helped in part by lowering...
Is this a transformative moment in global healthcare?
Sometimes, a small press release can hide a transformative moment for global healthcare. Ian Youngman analyses the new digital healthcare partnership between AXA and...
Could vaccine tourism damage the medical travel sector?
It took more than a decade for much of the medical tourism sector to rid itself of the image of being cheap with risky...
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