http://medicaltourismblog.org Medical Tourism, Global Health Care: Low Cost Quality Surgery Abroad Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:48:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This study directly compared a minimally invasive dual-incision muscle-sparing surgical technique with a standard posterolateral approach in total hip arthroplasty to assess for early complications, clinical success, and alignment. Total hip arthroplasties using a minimally invasive, muscle-sparing, dual-incision approach were performed on 21 hips (20 patients). This cohort was compared ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/10/15/a-comparison-of-the-minimally-invasive-dual-incision-versus-posterolateral-approach-in-total-hip-arthroplasty/ Excellent article. At WorlMed Assist, we couldn’t agree more. The reference to Medical Tourism and Medical tourism companies is made in this article several times and correctly so. Some of these companies engage in the selling of organs. WorldMed Assist specifically does not: we have helped many people obtain organ ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/09/01/the-basic-issues-of-organ-transplant-tourism/ Please see below for an interesting study reported by Reuters. We welcome research into the clinical outcomes of newer types of joint replacement surgeries. The outcome is not surprising though: since it takes experience to achieve the desired result, newer surgeries, all else being equal, will on average have poorer outcome ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/09/01/50/ Please see article below that just came out in the Washington Post. Our Medical Tourism process supports what is recommended in this article, and then some. Unfortunately the statement made by assistant professor Bridges is also true: there are a lot of vultures out there. That makes the need for an ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/07/08/washington-post-on-medical-tourism/ Interesting article that we fully subscribe to. The medical tourism ethics of worldmedassist (www.worldmedassist.com) go much further than this declaration, but this is a step in the right direction.  Experts from 78 countries around the world have signed a declaration calling for a total ban on organ trafficking and transplant tourism. The 152 transplant specialists, ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/07/06/call-for-organ-trafficking-ban/ Very interesting report from a credible source that goes into the current state of medical tourism in Asia as well as its potential for the next 4 years.  Delhi, India, June 25, 2008 ---RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, "Asian Medical Tourism Analysis (2008-2012)” to its report gallery. ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/06/25/asian-medical-tourism-analysis-report-issued/ Interesting study comparing gastric bypass (RNY) and lap band surgeries. Click on the following for more information about gastric bypass in Mexico or India or lap band in Mexico  LAP-BAND(R) System is less invasive, less risky than laparoscopic gastric bypass, according to a five-year study comparing the two most common weight-loss surgery procedures ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/06/03/benefits-of-the-lap-bandr-procedure-over-laparoscopic-gastric-bypass-according-to-five-year-study-of-morbidly-obese/ By Robert Lupo, Santa Rosa, CA I was in the middle of a construction job when my hip finally said, “No more!”  I couldn’t get up the stairs.  I told the guy I was working for I’d have to give up—he could wait for me to have hip surgery, or he’d ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/05/13/45/  By Jerry Mead, Pekin, IN  “India??  Are you kidding?”  That was the common response to my plan to have both my hips replaced in India.  By the end of 2007, it was very apparent that I need a bilateral hip replacement to resolve my two-year onset of osteoarthritis.  My career in ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/05/13/wockhardt-hospital-provides-bilateral-hip-replacement-in-india-through-worldmed-assist/ Stacey Owen, Southport, FL   I’ve had a weight problem all my life.  For the last two years, I’ve been thinking seriously about bariatric surgery—nothing else has ever worked long-term.  I checked out several options -- lap band, and gastric bypass [RNY].but for me, they weren’t right.  A friend of my mother-in-law ... http://medicaltourismblog.org/2008/04/29/dr-ungson-provides-duodenal-switch-in-mexico-to-worldmed-assist-patient/