February 3, 2011 – West Palm Beach, FL
The Medical Tourism Association has announced it will take over management of MedicalTourism.com (http://www.medicaltourism.com/), the top ranking website for medical tourism, as part of its 2011 Consumer Awareness Program.  This program pioneers a massive educational platform for patients in emerging markets to learn about healthcare providers worldwide.
The MedicalTourism.com [...]

Medical Korea 2011: The 2nd Global Healthcare & Medical Tourism Conference of Korea.
On-line registration will be opened on Jan. 21 (Fri), 2011.
It will be available through the official website: www.medical-korea.org
Please contact secretariat if you have any questions: info@medical-korea.org

Medical tourism is a massive and rapidly growing travel sector all over the world and is forecast to be worth USD100 billion by 2012.
The sector is growing at a rate of 20-30% a year with no slowdown foreseen. The Times of India recently cited figures from Frost and Sullivan, [...]

April 17–18, 2010
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
www.ghinnovate.org
200 Speakers representing all disciplines of global health, social entrepreneurship, international development, and innovation. Keynote speakers include Seth Godin, Jacqueline Novogratz, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs.
Social innovation sessions by the CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, Water.org, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, [...]

Is traveling abroad for treatment a good idea? Peter Greenberg explains how this strategy can save you a bundle, as long as you take appropriate precautions. By Peter Greenberg
A few years ago, the travel industry threw around phrases like “surgical safari” or “breast implants and tango” to promote the idea that folks could combine travel [...]

WVON Radio Chicago – Bonnie DeShong & Ja’Vonne Harley – May 11, 2009
Interview with Patrick Marsek about the concept of medical tourism and the book “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Medical Tourism.”

Medical tourism (also called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare) is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care.
Such services typically include elective procedures as well as complex specialized surgeries such as joint replacement (knee/hip), cardiac surgery, [...]