Medical tourism, anyone?

Awhile back, I posted a link about a celebrity getting his heart fixed at a Bankok hospital...well, the hospital now had a link on some blog, and I post it above. I AM NOT RECOMMENDING IT. I post for information only.
Their "blog" is HERE....

There are a lot of CLINICAL TRIALS in the USA using stem cells to repair hearts...for example, here is a news release from Chicago's Rush Medical Center about it...funded by THIS COMPANY...who has several clinical trials going not only for heart disase but also Crohn's disease, and bad knees...all using ADULT stem cells.

The treatment for bad hearts is still experimental...some studies say it works, but most of the articles are in research journals or about research...
What needs to be done, of course, is compare if it works better than, say, beta blockers, ACE blockers, implantable defibrillators etc...in keeping people alive and improving their ejection fraction (EF tells you how well the heart pumps).
We'll know that it works better when Dick Cheyney gets injected...

But a second reason I posted this link is that there is a dirty little secret that you can get your plastic surgery done cheaper in Asia...and now the Philippines is trying to get into attracting health care tourists.

Most of these procedures are for things that insurance companies won't pay for, such as sex change surgery or various types of plastic surgery. But now this Thai hospital is trying to attract customers for experimental treatment...(which also would not be covered by most insurance companies).

Medical tourism is also done for transplants.....there are rumors about paying people to donate kidneys or worse, but I don't know of any cases here...

Singapore is where a lot of people here go for surgery because their standards are higher than Manila, and it's much cheaper than Chicago. But now the Philippines is trying to get into medical tourism...

And for approved treatments, some US insurance companies will pay for it in Manila...and if you are on a long NHS waiting list, you should keep it in mind.