If you’re anticipating a trip overseas for medical treatment, or even just an overseas vacation, it pays to know before hand that there is a big variation in the fees you may pay on foreign purchases and money changing. It’s easy to get burned by fees that U.S. banks and credit card companies tack on […]

Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) has approved the Israeli-Thai stem cell therapy company TheraVitae for special investor privileges under the BOI’s foreign investment program. Mr Narin Apichairuk, president of TheraVitae, says this will allow them to open a laboratory near Bangkok. Currently adult stem cells are extracted from patients’ blood and then sent to a […]

This story is from October 2006 but worth mentioning for completeness in the assessment of Thailand’s top healthcare facilities. Newsweek, in an article titled Medical Meccas, features Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok and lavishes the usual praises upon it such as “world-class medicine at developing-world prices”, and “velvet-glove treatment redolent of a five-star hotel”. The […]

The online news site NBC-2.com had a story about several patients, 10 actually, who came from Florida to Bangkok to receive adult stem cell therapy for their untreatable heart conditions. One of the interesting points from that story is that this therapy is “illegal” in America. So these 10 men from southwest Florida were condemned […]