Medical travel: Articles and features: 2012

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New standards for cosmetic surgery in Europe... Have your say!The recent PIP implants controversy has raised more concerns about regulation, operation and standards within the cosmetic surgery industry. In the UK, the Guardian newspaper has recently highlighted private cosmetic clinics that employ surgeons to carry out breast enlargements, nose jobs and tummy...
Build it and they will comeIn medical tourism's Field of Dreams, the mantra of Build it and they will come has become a well worn phrase often heard at conferences and promoted too frequently by advisers and consultants. Ian Youngman from IMTJ debunks the myth.
Medical tourism destinations and survivorship biasDr Constantine Constantinides from healthCare cybernetics proposes that when it comes to medical tourism destinations and their future, past prominence is no guarantee of future eminence.
Cosmetic surgery tourism and the PIP implant controversyThe PIP breast implant controversy continues to grab the headlines across Europe. Concerns have been raised by women who have had their breast implants as cosmetic surgery tourists. What do they do if they have received a PIP (or a Rofil M) implant in a cosmetic surgery clinic in another country?...
The challenges of healthcare investment and provision in the Middle EastIMTJ spoke to Dr Mussaad Al-Rozouki, CEO of Kleos, a Kuwaiti based and Middle East focused healthcare development company that connects high net worth and institutional investors with lucrative healthcare assets and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa.