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Cleveland medical mart on track to break ground next year
  With roughly $475 million of financing in hand — including from a bond sale last week &mdash...
Domestic medical travel is taking off for surgery deals
Forget about traveling to Thailand or India for low-cost surgery. More employers and insurers are offering financial...
Japan wants to build medical tourism market
Japan's government tells BusinessWeek that it has an idea for creating jobs in its healthcare sector--competing for...
NHS restrictions prompt fertility tourism boom
Hundreds of women over the age of 40 are traveling to fertility clinics in Europe to try to get pregnant because the...
Americans consider crossing borders for medical care
A Gallup Poll has found that up to 29% of Americans would consider traveling abroad for medical procedures such as...
Web Exclusive: Global Marketer: Medical Travel to Grow Despite (or Because of) Economy
At least one global hospital executive is confident the medical travel business will expand in the future and may even...
Costa Rica expects 100,000 medical travelers in next five years
Officials estimate that as many as 100,000 people will visit Costa Rica over the next five years for medical care. The...
Medical tourism kicking despite bad economy
The global economic crisis has so far left Jordan's medical tourism industry untouched. In fact, according to the...
Web Exclusive: Red Ink Flows While Facilitators Make Inroads
The global recession is making elective procedures a tough sell. But considering the financial outlook of the...
Singapore firm eyes medical tourism dollar
A new e-service has been launched by the Singapore-based FlyFreeForHealth. The new service assists patients with...