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Medical Tourism

Medical Tourism in India Affected by Strict Visa Rules

Finally, a few repercussions of strict immigration rules have come to surface. It seems stringent immigration rules may abrade Medical Tourism in India. Health space that was ready with its

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Asian Medical Tourism Market Forecast to 2015

Medical tourism, also called health tourism or medical travel, is a rapidly growing industry catering to patients who travel across national borders to receive medical treatments. In Asia, medical tourism

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Understanding customer choice and regional medical tourism

How well does the medical tourism industry understand its customers? If it’s not all about price, how do medical tourists make decisions about destinations and healthcare providers? Is regional and

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Longer Looks: Medical Tourism; Meeting Your Pathologist

As the United States struggles to rein in its growing $2.7 trillion health care bill, the cost of medical devices like joint implants, pacemakers and artificial urinary valves offers a

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Cuba turns to medical tourism as revenue generator

Football legend Diego Maradona blazed a path for Cuba to become a medical tourism destination when he travelled to the island for drug addiction treatment in 2000. Since then, thousands

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In Need of a New Hip, but Priced Out of the US

“Very leery” of going to a developing country like India or Thailand, which both draw so-called medical tourists, he ultimately chose to have his hip replaced in 2007 at a

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