Editor's Note: Mercury Advisory Group consultants have released significant research findings of potential interest and use for those involved in the shaping of national medical tourism strategies. Based on information gathered when benchmarking medical tourism market initiatives throughout the world for various clients, these findings have the potential to make it

'Medical travel' can be used to access advanced technologies news-medical.net - The search for medical technologies through medical travel can change the lives of patients and their family members, according to medical anthropologists Cecilia Vindrola-Padros and Linda M. Whiteford, who examined the lives of Bolivian and Paraguayan families who traveled

indianexpress.com - Not much is known about Sushma Pandey's death, except that she was 17 years old, died suddenly and had visited a fertility clinic just two days earlier - at least the third time she was doing so in 18 months. Now, almost two years after she died, Sushma's

indianexpress.com - Advancing technology and growing medical tourism have helped in vitro fertilization thrive in India, but with little regulation. Egg donors are chosen and paid according to their profile, with touts and agencies arranging them for hospitals and recipients. And the donor is often at risk, a fact highlighted

Hospitals are neglected as patients are subsidized for treatment abroad. smh.com.au - A multimillion-dollar medical tourism industry catering to Libyans has emerged in neighboring countries, stripping the country's struggling health system of vital investment and blocking efforts to rebuild a sector rife with corruption. Nowhere is the extent of Libya's

ihealthbeat.org -Although the number of mobile health apps has grown dramatically over the past few years, there has not been a corresponding rise in the number of people downloading them, the Washington Post reports. Rise in Mobile Health Apps Brian Dolan, editor and co-founder of MobiHealthNews, said data show the number of consumer

Editor's Note: Just how healthcare reform will affect Americans seeking treatment abroad is the subject of a recent blog by Josef Woodman, founder and CEO of Healthy Travel Media and author of the Patients Beyond Borders series. As Woodman states, in regards to the nearly one million patients in the US who will seek

Editor's Note : Kate Kyoungmi Kang, MHA, works as a medical tourism consultant at Ipock International Healthcare Consulting, LLC.  Her interests lie in growing the Korean Medical Tourism market and creating global infrastructure to facilitate the growing industry. As a recent master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) graduate, I am excited to be

  John E. Vitalis, Vitalis & Company, LLC My initial reaction is that the decision will not have a significant impact on medical travel, especially in the short term (next two years), since the PPACA does not really "kick in" for adults until 2014. According to the report,

The Tourism Observatory for Health, Wellness and Spa (TOHWS) has launched the publication of its trend forecasts, under the name of the 'Constellation Series.' The series draws on TOHWS' 15+ years of experience in medical travel including research, consulting work, and involvement in professional and academic events and presentations. TOWHS