One day a few weeks ago, a flight from the Middle East arrived in Houston. An ambulance met the plane on the tarmac and whisked a trauma patient to the emergency room of Memorial Hermann Hospital in the city’s famed Texas Medical Center. After a neurological evaluation, the patient was wheeled into the operating room, where surgery.....

For years, non-U.S. residents have traveled into the U.S. for healthcare, many travelling from third-world countries every year for their annual check-ups, second opinions, diagnosis or treatment of a wide array of medical conditions. If you Google the topic, you’ll find records of wealthy and/or affluent travelers from other countries visiting.........

Why spend $160,000 on heart valve replacement surgery in Boston when the same procedure costs as little as $8,000 in India or a $43,000 hip replacement in New York when it can be done in Thailand for about $12,000? And that includes airfare, luxury accommodations, US or British trained doctors and, English speaking staff...

SA WAS well positioned to take advantage of a fast-growing health tourism sector but the country had to guard against disadvantaging poorer communities, Deputy Health Minister Molefi Sefularo said yesterday. Demand for SA’s health services is steadily increasing. The demand comes from thousands of wealthy.....

BANGALORE, July 31, 2009: Several initiatives have been launched to attract tourists to Tamil Nadu including projecting destinations like Vellore with world class medical facilities as part of medical tourism, a top official of the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) said today. Tamil Nadu has become a medical hub with patients around the globe coming.....

Johannesburg - South Africa is well positioned to become the destination of choice for health tourism. Addressing the Health Tourism Congress on Thursday on medical preparations for travel tourism ahead of 2010, Deputy Minister of Health Molefi Sefularo said before tourists visit a country, they search for the best healthcare available. "Health tourism is the fastest growing industry in the world as a result of an increasing number of patients travelling the world in search of the best quality and affordable medical care......

Johannesburg - South Africa has to position itself as a destination of choice for medical healthcare ahead the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Deputy Health Minister Molefi Sefularo said on Thursday. "It is a wave that you will all have to catch," he said at the South African health tourism conference at the Sandton Convention Centre......

PUBLIC CARE: SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM IS BOTH FAIR AND SUSTAINABLE: Rachel Tutte is co-chairwoman of the B.C. Health Coalition, and works as a physiotherapist at a public rehabilitation hospital in Vancouver. British Columbians are rightly concerned about Health Minister Kevin Falcon's decision to deny $360-million in funding to health authorities this year. Coupled with the minister's recent comments in favour of for-profit health care, they should be.

Johannesburg — SA CAN accommodate up to 1-million health tourists each year and is ideally placed to the become the destination of choice for medical and cosmetic surgical procedures, Cawe Mahlati, the organiser of the inaugural Health Tourism Congress, said yesterday.....

Central and Eastern European countries are quickly developing their medical tourism. The countries offer cheaper yet quality health care and they are easily accessible from Western Europe. The biggest attraction for medical tourists is almost always the cheaper price. Sometimes the cost of a surgery in Eastern Europe may be even 70 per cent cheaper than in the US or in the UK....