What will happen to the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) if there’s a Brexit?
For Britons travelling on the continent, a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) – which affords travellers state provided necessary medical treatment in the host country – has long been a default item to take on holiday.They cover temporary stays in European Economic
1.4M Americans expected to travel abroad for medical care in 2016
Medical tourism among Americans has grown increasingly popular as the cost of many healthcare services in the U.S rises. With the cost savings that come with traveling to other countries for certain medical procedures, a handful of American insurance companies
India to propose a ban on commercial surrogacy, ending a lucrative business
NEW DELHI — India’s government has cleared the way for a measure that would ban all commercial surrogacy in the country, allowing only close family relatives to become surrogate mothers. The proposed measure is a blow to thethriving but unregulated rent-a-womb industry
Pregnant women told to delay travel to Florida over Zika virus fears
Pregnant women should avoid all non-essential trips to Florida because of the risk of contracting the Zika virus, British officials have said, after the first cases of Zika transmitted by mosquitoes on the US mainland were confirmed in the state. The
Delivering Cures to Global Patients Through Medical Tourism
NEW YORK — VoyagerMed, an online marketplace for in-bound, U.S. medical tourism, announced confirmed speakers for their inaugural Medical Innovation Summit slated for September 23, 2016 in New York, NY. The event will include six programmatic sessions on innovations in treatment,
Medical tourists visiting Latvia mostly choose diagnostics and dental services
Foreign medical tourists visiting Latvia to undergo treatment generally opt for various diagnostics and dental services, the president of the Latvian Medical Export Association Olafs Slutins said in an interview with the newspaper Diena.He explained that visitors prefer these services
Medical tourism is big business: 80,000 Omanis traveled to Thailand last year
More than 80,000 Omanis travelled to Thailand in 2015, the designate Thailand Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, said.“A majority of the tourists from Oman visted Thailand for medical treatment,” Ambassador Jesda Katavetin said.Explaining why his country is a major hub
Medical Tourism Growing at IU Health
INDIANAPOLIS -The director of the international patient services program at Indiana University Health says the system's burgeoning medical tourism efforts provide an economic boost to the industry and the Indiana economy. Lance Barnes says the International Patient Services program, which
e-visa regime may be extended to medical tourism, business tourists soon
After enabling e-visa facility to 150 countries, the government is in the process of further reforming the regime to boost tourism sector in the country."We have e-visa for 150 countries. We are reforming the e-visa regime further. We are trying
Medical Tourism: How cheaper costs are pulling foreign patients to India
Owing to quality medical services coming at a cheaper price, India is witnessing a swelling number of patients from other countries each year boosting medical tourism. According to the data available with Ministry of Tourism, as many as 96,856 foreigners