Health Tourism News

Heart-valve replacement surgery in USA - $200,000
Heart-valve replacement surgery in India - $10,000
Dental bridge in USA - $5,500
Dental bridge in India - $500
The numbers speak for themselves. Little wonder that over 50,000 Americans traveled to countries like India, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand for medical treatment in 2006. But when it comes to your body, cost [...]

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Medical tourism is a recognized industry in the west. When Information Technology, manufacturing and technical support jobs went eastward, nobody even bothered to think that healthcare might take the same road somebody. But it did. And that’s good news for countries like India, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines.
Medical care in these Asian countries cost just one-tenth [...]

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The Malaysian government has recently decided to extend the visa for health tourists from a period of thirty days to six months. This is a great move to improve health tourism in the country. Tourists applying for the health visa must have important documents like letters from the doctors treating them to apply for the [...]

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Health care in the U.S. is expensive. Period. Medical expenditure in U.S. has reached an all-time high of $2 trillion per year. U.S. top the list of nation’s spending on health insurance. But still 46 million Americans continue to live without insurance each year. But health care woes are far from over, even for the [...]

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As more and more westerners start to understand the value of age-old cures, traditional medical practices like Ayurveda and Naturopathy are seeing a new kind of resurgence in this day and age. This move has been a real boom to India’s health tourism sector. Today, people from USA and Europe come to the backwaters of [...]

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