Volume 5, Issue 25 by Amanda Haar, Editor   Greetings, As the year winds down, it’s natural to assume that business will, too. But nothing could be further from the truth in medical travel. Just last week, Pepsi Co. — the world’s second largest food and beverage company — announced a new partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine that extends medical travel benefits to nearly 250,000 people domestically. There’s no doubt that other businesses and benefit managers will take note and visit, or revisit as the case may be, the money-saving potential of medical travel. And this is just one of the recently encouraging tales from the industry. It’s clear that right up to the cusp of 2012, new partnerships will be formed, new benefit programs implemented, and never-before considered models for how to conduct business will take shape across many sectors of the industry. We look forward to reporting on all of them soon. As always, we welcome your comments, story ideas, and press releases.   Cheers, Amanda Haar, Editor