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Medical Tourism
Letters from Europe
“Artificial Beauty Overshadows Natural Beauty”Girls in Macedonia Cross Borders for Plastic Surgery
By Antonina Veljanovska
EU Correspondent
 In the last few years in the Balkans, more and more girls and women have made adjustments to themselves whether it was ears, nose, chest, lips, or liposuction. Most plastic surgeries are ...What Is the Ring?
Special Contribution
By Shobha Shukla
 The dapivirine vaginal ring is a female-initiated option to reduce the risk of HIV infection. It is a silicon ring impregnated with 25mg of the drug dapivirine (a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor). It ...Disability Is Not Limited to the Body, It Is Also about Mindsets
Special Contribution
By Shobha Shukla
 Very often it is our disabling attitudes that make life difficult for people with disabilities, rather than their own physical impairments. More than the disability itself, it is its psychological effects that take a ...UAE Embassy Takes Part in 2020 Gangnam Medi Tour Festa
 His Excellency Abdulla Saif Al Nuaimi, UAE Ambassador to Seoul, delivered a congratulatory speech on video technology on the occasion of 2020 Gangnam Medi Tour Festa, which is held by ...Tobacco-Caused Diseases Are a Bane to the Pandemic
 Grappling with a pandemic that has impacted humanity is no mean task. Scientists, doctors, governments, civilians — the entire world — have adorned their respective uniforms and stand united in this war ...Accelerating Progress on Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights, Key for SDGsImprovements in the health sector, as well as in other sectors such as infrastructure development, economic growth and poverty reduction, play a major role in improving not only health and ...Stop This Shaming of MenstruationThis disgustingly shocking and audacious signpost appears in a country where women value their bodily autonomy and rights fiercely, or so do I believe. This seems to be the work of some ignorant and ...Do It Right the First Time, Every Time!Are we losing grip on the evidence-based basic principles that were in the core of fighting tuberculosis? Challenges like drug resistance which are posing a threat to global health security warrant a review. ...Asia-Pacific Should Bolster Health SystemsAsia-Pacific countries should strengthen their health systems and sharply increase spending to deliver effective universal cover. The share of the population aged 65 years and over in Asian countries is ...ESMO Hosts 2nd ASIA Congress in SingaporeSINGAPORE: The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, has successfully concluded the ESMO Asia 2016 Congress ...Complacency Breeds Failure: Consolidate Efforts to End AIDS by 2030US Medical Team Observes SELD ProcedureFor Age Is Opportunity No Less Than Youth itselfNew Study Pegs the Number of TB Cases in India at Double the Current EstimatesNew York-Presbyterian/Queens Appoints Dr. Benjamin Lee as Chief of Thoracic SurgerySelf-stigma: Let Us Do More Than Just "Ttalk about It"We Cannot Eliminate TB If We Leave Children BehindMDR-TB Treatment Rgimen: Short Indeed Is BeautifulScreening for Breast and Cervical Cancer Is a Public Health ImperativeAsthma -- Can We Live with It?Strike at the Root of the Problem to Kill TBAntibiotic Use Is Driving Antibiotic ResistanceBig Push for Transgender and Hijra WelfareNepal Leading Tobacco Control in S. Asia: Will It Spiral Domino Effect on Other Nations?Lung Cancer: Difficult to Diagnose, Difficult to Treat, Easy to PreventTobacco Smoking Ruining Lives: Lung Cancer Rates AlarmingRegular HIV Prevention Counselling Reduces Risk of InfectionStrong Tobacco Taxation Policy Adopted despite Industry InterferenceMedical Malpractices: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?Overcoming Roadblocks in Translating Evidence-Based Healthcare into Public Health GainsIndian Doctor Trupti Gilada to Get Fellowship Award at AIDS 2014Koreans Visit Leading Health and Safety Body to Learn More about the ProfessionManagement of Respiratory Diseases beyond Drugs: Pulmonary RehabilitationGender Justice to Be at the Heart of Development JusticeConnecting the Dots: Tobacco Use, Diabetes, and TuberculosisIt Is Time To Control AsthmaCall for No More New HIV Infected ChildrenBreak the Silence around CancerHow Can You Treat Your Illness Unless You Take Your Medicines?Biggest Killer of Kids Under 5 Is PneumoniaAsthma Medicines Still Unaffordable for ManyStem Cell Therapy Shows Promise in Repairing Brain Damage Even Hours after Stroke OccursScaling Up Natural Fertility Awareness Methods Increases Access to Family PlanningTip the Scale in Favor of QualityShould Asthma Control Us or We Control Asthma?New Technique to Prevent Diabetic Lower-Limb AmputationsStem Cells Might Beat Drugs in Delivering
Relief FasterCycle Beads: The Bead String for Family Planning"2013 EU Gateway Programme Healthcare and Medical Technologies" Held at COEX in SeoulS. Korea Is the King of Cosmetic SurgeryS. Korea, No. 1 Plastic Surgery NationFaster Help for Stroke VictimsGlobal Network to Target AsthmaGrand Meets Patients with Perfect One-Stop Medical ServiceGangnamgu Sweeps 3 Awards at AFHC Global Conference Held in Brisbane, AustraliaBeware: All Forms of Tobacco Are Harmful!Stem Cell Graft Restores Memory and MoodDr. Lee Sang-Chol: Global Healthcare ProviderGangnam Mayor Shin Puts Signboard on JKDirector Kim Sung-Nam Cures Cancer Patients with EnzymesRaoncell Medical Clinic Signs MOU with Shanghai AYJ Bio Research CenterKHIDI President Ko Kyung-Hwa Opens Medical Tourism CEO CourseNew Nurses Welcomed by Hospitals, ClinicsLee, Magic Oriental DoctorMother's Milk Is the Best Nutrition for the ChildGangnamgu Mayor Shin Yeon-Hee Leads South Korea’s Medical TourismWhere Is The TB Quilt, Nay Mask?Gangnamgu Leads Medical TourismTime for Critical Thinking and Action?Tuberculosis: Ugly Scar on Beautiful ChildhoodS. Korea's Inbound Medical Tourism Revenue Exceeds Outbound in 2011: IMTJ ReportsGlobalizing Korean Oriental Medicine: Ariang TVTowards A More Enabling Environment for Effective HIV/AIDS Responses"The Boy Who Became Successful"More Medical Tourists Visit South KoreaMedical Korea's Medical Policy Improvement Project for Foreign PatientsDr. Paik Nam-Sun Calls Self "Super Surgeon""Wooridul, Korea's Best Spinal Surgery Clinic"The Growth of Medical Tourism in the UKLee Gil-Ya Gets Science AwardS. Korea: Growing Medical Tourism DestinationS. Korea Makes Inroads Into Medical TourismFeed Your Child Well: Prevent PneumoniaSports and Sprains -- a Bad Combination!Affluence Spurs Asian Medical TourismMedical Tourism Big Business in AsiaWhy Do Americans Go Abroad for Surgery?Costly Medicines Mean Debt or Death for People with Hepatitis CWhy Your Doctor May Be Acting Differently?
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Director Maricon Basco-Ebron says
1 Mil. Koreans to Visit Philippines
 "This year my goal is to increase the number of Korean tourists visiting the Philippines to 1 million," said Ms. Maricon Basco-Ebron, the head of Philippine tourism office in Seoul, in a recent interview. "We will achieve this with our new campaign ‘It’s More Fun in the Philippines’” In the interview held in her office in Seoul on Feb. 3, 2012 the tourism director said that the new campaign will be ...more
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Among hundreds of plastic surgery clinics clustered in Seoul’s Gangnam area, Mecca of South Korea’s medical industry, Grand Plastic Surgery Clinic stands out. Equipped with state-of-the-art medical facilities and top-notch skills its 31 highly specialized doctors meet their patients, both locals and foreigners in its own system of one-stop service that ... more
Thirty years ago, Mr. Lee Sang-Ho, a neurosurgical doctor from Seoul founded a new hospital that specializes primarily in spinal surgeries. Its name was Wooridul Hospital. Just three decades on, Wooridul hospital has become known world-wide as the world’s best neuro-musculoskeletal diseases center with official branches in locations across the globe. Most of the spinal surgeries in Wooridul are performed ... more
President Lee Gil-Ya of Gachon University of Medicine and Science was chosen as the recipient of "Unam (雩南) Science Promotion Award" by South Korea's science journalists.
Hong Kong has always been a fascinating destination for Korean people. Middle-aged or older Koreans grew up listening to the phrase: I go to Hong Kong, the expression they used when they were extremely happy. Used to be called Asia’s shopping paradise for young ladies and financial hub for business people, the port city now emerges as a travel destinationwith multi-faceted images.....more
Medical tourism is fast becoming the discourse among local peoples in South Korea as increasing number of foreigners from overseas visit the nation for both tourism and medical treatment. In the year 2012 the number of inbound medical tourists will hit 100,000 by the South Korean government’s estimate...more