http://healthabroad.net/blog Medical Tourism - Health Tourism - Surgery Abroad - Medical Travel - Affordable Healthcare Tue, 29 May 2007 06:41:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The number of people traveling from Western Europe to Poland for cheaper medical care is likely to rise by 20 percent per year. Visitors from Western Europe can get some medical treatments in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary for upto 60 percent of the costs in their own countries. The ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=161 With the medical tourism industry estimated to be worth $188 billion by 2013, Philippines is eager to levearage its cost effectiveness for medical surgery along with tourism potential to tap into the pie. A somewhat late entrant into the race, it faces stiff competition from other Asian countries such as Thailand, ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=159 Michael Moore is at it again, for better or for worse. Sicko, his new flick on the state of the American healthcare system is creating quite a media buzz at Cannes. Knowing that he is a bit of a rabble rouser and enjoys getting under the skin of his detractors, this ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=158 It's my birthday today and I'm in negotiations with HealthAbroad.net to send me to Japan so I can get myself a facial. A pure gold facial!  The facial which places gold leaf on the face to accelerate cell growth in the basal layer of the skin is supposed to rejuvenate the ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=160 BBC News online has a story on how France has the best survival rates in Europe in spite of Britain's NHS having some of the finest cancer specialists in the world. The reason? Speed of treatment. So while the UK has 2.3 doctors for every 1,000 patients, France has 3.4 for ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=157 An interview with Dr. Jason Yap on how and why Singapore is promoting medical tourism in a big way. Dr. Yap is the Director of Information Services of the Singapore Medicine section of the Singapore Tourism Board. A few things to point out from the interview: in 2006, more than 400,000 patients ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=156 500,000 in the last year to be exact, according to the Turkish culture and tourism ministry undersecretary. The Anatolia region is the prime European location for geothermal potential and is likely to attract investments in medical tourism and real estate. Geothermal springs and geysers and the cheap yet high quality surgical procedures ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=155 A study released yesterday has found that American hospitals are charging uninsured patients as much as two and a half times more than those with health insurance. The American Hospital Association (AHA), which represents the country's 5,000 or so hospitals in its rebuttal said that the report was out of ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=153 Philippines is planning to relax rules and increase the quota for kidney transplant for foreigners. At present the country has a 10% ceiling for foreign beneficiaries of kidney transplants, a limit that is often breached. http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=151 By crossing the border, Texans are cutting medical costs by half. The presence of well trained doctors, modern facilities, state-of-the-art equipment has meant that regardless of what side of the border one is on, an equivalent quality of medicare is available at a lower cost on the Mexican side. Lasik eye surgery which ... http://healthabroad.net/blog/?p=150