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The key "selling points" of the medical tourism industry are its "cost effectiveness" and its combination with the attractions of tourism. The latter also uses the ploy of selling the "exotica" of the countries involved as well as the packaging of health care with traditional therapies and treatment methods.

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Growth of the Medical Tourism Industry ;

The countries where medical tourism is being actively promoted include Greece, South Africa, Jordan, India, Malaysia, Philippines and

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Medical tourism is the practice of going out of the country to receive medical care. For instance, people in the U.S. often travel to India or Costa Rica for medical procedures like plastic surgery, weight loss surgery, and extensive dental care. While Medical tourism is often practiced for things like cosmetic surgery and other elective procedure’s, some peoples also travel for other procedures like heart surgery and organ transplant. Popular medical tourism destinations like India, Singapore,… Continue

India continues to make rapid strides in medical tourism. Analysts view medical tourism as a most promising segment, but many areas of concern need to be addressed.

With its low cost advantage and emergence of several private players, it represents the fastest growing market, predicts "Asian Medical Tourism Analysis (2008-2012)," prepared by Research and Markets, an Irish firm.

Actually there is nothing strikingly new about the finding, experts say. India was touted as the global destination f… Continue

India has successfully mapped the human genome that will help develop effective drug development in the country, an achievement that puts the country among an elite league of six countries that have achieved the feat so far.

This achievement will help develop predictive medicine and keep healthcare a low-cost affair for the common man. It can tell whether a person has chances of developing a certain disease and whether a certain medicine will have any impact on him or not.

'This is a unique ac… Continue