Intensity-modulated protons reduce side effects of whole-brain radiotherapy
Dose distributions for an intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) plan and a volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plan for a paediatric patient receiving hippocampal-avoidance whole-brain irradiation. The far-left slices depict the cochlea in dark blue; the other slices depict the hippocampi
Opinion: Thwarting Medical Tourism
Across a broad spectrum of diseases and injuries, researchers are making significant progress in clinical trials for regenerative medicine. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technologies that enhance killer T-cell activation for tumor destruction are emerging as powerful tools for eradicating cancer.
Alaskans seek relief from high health care costs with medical tourism
In 2007, Marcy Merrill decided it was finally time to get some help. She was obese, but wouldn't truly admit it.Then one day, "I looked up and saw myself in the mirror … really saw myself," Merrill said. At that
What Medical Tourism Tells Us about Our Healthcare System
If you ask a hospital in your neighborhood to give you a package price on a standard surgical procedure, you will probably be turned down. After the suppression of normal market forces for the better part of a century, hospitals
How technology is adding innovation in medical tourism
India is no stranger to medical tourism. Advanced medical expertise combined with economical pricing makes it a profitable place to get medical facilitations. In recent times, medical tourism in India has taken off to a new level. People are shunning
Is Israel an apartheid state?
I grew up in South Africa during the apartheid years, born to parents who had survived the Nazis. Thus, I heard firsthand what they experienced, which shaped my sensitivity to social justice and support for civil disobedience against that regime.In
Colombia Turns to Marijuana as Rural Jobs Tool
Colombia granted its first production and export license for cannabis derivatives to a Canadian-Colombian company, as the country known for cocaine trafficking looks to marijuana to generate rural employment.The government views its foray into the medicinal marijuana industry as a jobs creator
Canada Wrestles With Terms of Doctor-Assisted Suicide
A political stalemate over right-to-die legislation is stirring legal questions about who can seek a doctor’s help to die and under what conditions doctor-assisted suicide is lawful in Canada.As of Tuesday, a 2015 Supreme Court of Canada ruling decriminalizing doctor-assisted
Is Peru’s Psychedelic Potion a Cure or a Curse?
After surviving firefights and a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, U.S. Army veteran Asa Barrett tried antidepressant drugs and therapy to overcome depression and bouts of anger. Nothing worked.But then, like many other foreigners, he journeyed to Peru’s remote Amazonian jungle to drink
Weight-loss tourism costing Alberta taxpayers thousands to fix medical mistakes
[caption id="attachment_1250" align="alignnone" width="670"] “From what I’m told, (hospital staff) called the family in and they didn’t think I was going to make it,” Kempton said.[/caption]Five years ago, Kempton travelled from Lloydminster, Alberta to Guadalajara, Mexico for gastric sleeve surgery