As previously reported, Bangkok Hospital has built a new branch in Hua Hin. It begins operations this month with a staged opening of different services. First to open is the emergency department with 24 hour operation to handle accidents and other medical emergencies. In early 2011, our ut-patient department will open with clinics in all […]

In addition to all of the standard procedures that have made Thailand a popular medical tourism destination there have been some treatments that were not available in the west that drew people to the Kingdom. In the U.S. in particular regulatory hurdles mean that promising treatments that have not yet gone through lengthy clinical trials […]

Looks like they have selected the 12 finalists for the Thailand medical tourism blogging contest. The list is up at medblogcontest.com. Looking it over it seems like there are a lot of impressive qualifications in there, including published travel writers, talk show hosts and writers with some medical tourism background. I haven’t checked out their […]

An company called RNCOS that prepares reports on industry research has released a report titled “Asian Medical Tourism Analysis (2008-2012)”. The reports costs $1,400 to $2,000 depending on license so we won’t be getting a copy. But there is a short overview available that has a few interesting points. First is that despite the global […]