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| The multi-billion dollar medical travel sector could become an important new source of demand when traditional demand drivers are under increasing threat. According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels’ most recent research FocusOn Medical Travel – fad or focus for hotel operators and investors?, the medical travel sector has potential to develop into a lucrative niche market for hotel operators and investors. |
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December 8, 2008 |
The multi-billion dollar medical travel sector could become an important new source of demand when traditional demand drivers are under increasing threat. According to Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels’ most recent research FocusOn Medical Travel – fad or focus for hotel operators and investors?, the medical travel sector has potential to develop into a lucrative niche market for hotel operators and investors. |
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December 8, 2008 |
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama decried two seemingly unrelated challenges: Factories shipping U.S. jobs overseas and our health-care crisis. But unless he acts quickly, President-elect Obama will face a threat that combines these trends as high costs make Americans seek health-care abroad. |
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December 2, 2008 |
Hospitals serving foreign patients have seen a few cancellations from abroad due to the closure of Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports. |
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November 8, 2008 |
Forty-five million Americans are currently uninsured and health expenditures in the United States are rising faster than wages and inflation. Despite spending more on health care than any other industrialized nation, the United States in 2000 ranked 37th in the World Health Organization's evaluation of health care systems around the globe. |
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October 22, 2008 |
Growing numbers of UK patients have been travelling abroad for medical treatment despite a lack of adequate insurance protection, says Angelis Insurance (Angelis), the first company to provide a dedicated and specific insurance cover for dental, cosmetic and medical treatment carried out abroad. |
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October 21, 2008 |
America’s health care system needs corrective surgery |
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October 5, 2008 |
An interesting clipping from an article on gulfnews.com shows the ambitions of Tunisia to join the ranks of major medical tourism destinations: |
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October 5, 2008 |
The German health care sector starts to heat up. A very interesting player is www.arzt-preisvergleich.de. Their business model: get patients to post the offers they have received from one doctor or dentist for treatment on their site and allow medical professionals to submit better offers. |
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October 5, 2008 |
The Millennium Research Group has conducted a detailed analysis of the US dental implant market which revealed that custom- milled final abutments represent the fastest-growing segment in the US dental implant market in 2006 with unit volumes growing over 100% from the previous year. |
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October 5, 2008 |
Nobel Biocare is one of the biggest dental implant makers. It’s share price just dropped 7% on the news that their latest annual sales growth estimate is 23% rather than the 25% the market expected. Suffering on a high level I would say… |
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