Canada’s health-care system is regarded as a national treasure by many, though it has not fared well in recent international studies, in which it has taken hits for well-known problems,
Passage of the Senate Republican health care bill in the U.S. is far from certain. Public support for it is less than 20% According to former U.S. president Barack Obama,
Medical tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry that is set to grow up to 25% every year for the next 10 years. This data shows that more people are becoming
Every year the Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQUA) inspects hospitals in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North and South America, and tests them for their expertise and services in
The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, has passed a bill to regulate medical tourism, with measures to ensure that foreigners who go to Israel and pay privately for medical care get
The Health Ministrys Health Tourism Council has authorised 45 more hospitals in Iran to admit international patients in one or more wards, taking the number of accredited hospitals for foreigners
The worldwide telehealth market is forecast to be worth $6.5 billion by 2020, marking a shift in the provision of traditional healthcare services. And with many national healthcare services facing
Harvard law professor, Glenn Cohen, author of Patients with passports: medical tourism, law, and ethics spoke in Canada on the ethics of medical tourism. Cohen used Bangladesh and India as
Media suggestions that it is or soon will be legal for American medical tourists to go to Cuba are wrong. Although the USA has freed up many regulations on American
A new medical tourism report out today from Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQUA) warns travelers not to have medical procedures done in Dominican Republic and puts four other countries on
