Yazan: admin Tarih: May 19th, 2009 | Kategori::
Cosmetic Surgery
Abdominoplasty surgery, commonly known as a tummy tuck surgery, is a procedure designed to make the stomach firmer by removing extra fat and skin from the lower and middle abdomen. Patients with loose tissue after pregnancy or who undergo severe weight loss usually opt for a tummy tuck or abdominoplasty surgery.
Abdominoplasty surgery is usually categorized as partial or total with the latter typically lasting twice as long in the operation theater. Women who are planning to have children and people who plan to reduce weight through exercise and dieting are generally discouraged from receiving abdominoplasty surgery. It’s important to remember that tummy tuck surgery can cause prominent and permanent scars. Laser treatment and ointments can help reduce the scarring, but even with these treatments, the incisions are usually still visible.
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Yazan: admin Tarih: May 8th, 2009 | Kategori::
Health Tourism News
I just read Constantine Constantinides informative and latest missive on medical tourism. Constantine runs Healthcare Cybernetics and is one of the “wise heads” of medical tourism.
Constantine says:
“I am getting fed up with industry newcomers (the “Johnny-come-latelys”), industry outsiders and the self-important upstarts who take issue with the word Tourism – claiming it is not “grand” enough for them to be associated with.They propose replacing it with the word “Travel”. Some even suggest we dump everything and start talking of Global Health (as if healthcare has not been global for ages)…….I do not like the “tourism” word – but neither do I like the several suggested alternatives”
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Yazan: admin Tarih: May 8th, 2009 | Kategori::
Health Tourism News
The recent European Congress on Health Tourism in Budapest reflected some of the current issues and challenges facing the medical tourism industry, particularly those presented by a world recession. Budapest is Europe’s dental tourism hub, attracting patients from countries such as the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia. If the recession is hitting medical tourism, then Budapest is going to feel it more than most.
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Yazan: admin Tarih: May 8th, 2009 | Kategori::
Health Tourism News
A woman from Wales who underwent cosmetic surgery in Belgium is bringing a test case against the Belgian clinic in the UK courts.The patient is suing the clinic after undergoing a face-lift and upper and lower eye surgery in 2005. She claims that she has been left with scarring around the eyes and the ears and has experienced numbness of the face.
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Yazan: admin Tarih: Apr 20th, 2009 | Kategori::
Health Tourism News
Universal health care is far more than a political catch phrase in the United States. For some, it could mean the difference between having and not having health care. According to the US Census Bureau, at least 47 million Americans were uninsured in 2006. With the economic crisis that has ballooned since then, that number may be even higher. Job loss, corporate cutbacks, and inflated costs have forced people to reevaluate their health care status. Questions like “How much do dental caps cost,” don’t even generate discussion. The answer, without a thought is, “It doesn’t matter, I can’t afford it.”
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