http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays Thai Healthcare Holidays Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:48:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Patients suffering from a range of debilitating illnesses, such as spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, optic nerve hypoplasia, multiple sclerosis and ataxia stand to benefit from a new laboratory, established with a Chinese Government grant. Such a facility will put China at the forefront of the global race to engineer ... http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays/stem-cell-therapy.html Cruising around the internet for the latest news on medical tourism (or medicare as it is sometimes being called now) is illuminating as, almost daily, more destinations clamber on board the gravy train. A speaker at the first "Wellness Tourism Seminar Workshop" in the Philippines was reported as saying that," The ... http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays/the-race-is-on-for-the-medical-tourist-dollar.html To China for brain injury treatment Heartening to read about a young U.S. man who after a five-week stay in China can now drink unassisted, control his drooling, open and close his eyes and hear better - and it is early days yet. As well as the stem cell therapy ... http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays/musings.html I've just spent several hours reading blogs about medical tourism and finished feeling that blogs were little else than a marketing voice of travel firms and providers. When you look at the language used it is overwhelmingly the language of advertising. "Get to the airport with your passport." "We only ... http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays/bloggers-wax-lyrical-about-bargain-surgery-offshore.html Here's a stark contrast in healthcare service levels... During mid-August 2007, Christchurch Hospital A&E department were advertising on local radio... Not promoting their services, actually! No, instead they were requesting people NOT go to them unless it was absolutely essential! They were asking potential patients to go to their own ... http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays/new-zealand-hospital-asks-people-to-stay-away-from-accident-emergency.html Musings by Jon Some of us are old enough to remember when nursing was a vocation and nurses excelled at all the little things that add to patient comfort and make a hospital stay as bearable as possible. That's why nursing is always up near the top of polls of the ... http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays/when-nurses-had-the-time-to-care.html Last week I met a couple from Texas who had come to Bangkok as their last hope of getting help for heart failure. The patient (the husband) had exhausted all avenues of help in the U.S. and had been told to go home and await the inevitable. During the past ... http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays/adult-stem-cell-therapy-gets-cardiomyopathy-patient-out-of-wheelchair.html Thailand medical tourism brings lots of visitors to Bangkok in search of high quality, cost-effective healthcare services. ThaiMed Associates are Thailand-based "Healthcare Service Brokers" who match client's medical requirements with medical service providers, clinics and hospital facilities.  ThaiMed Associates is operated by Jon Bradshaw and Ben Kemp, two expatriate Kiwi's living and working in ... http://www.thailand-medical-tourism.biz/thai-healthcare-holidays/thailand-medical-tourism-health-service-brokers.html