News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Medical Tourism"
To Save Money, American Patients And Surgeons Meet In Cancun
From the article: I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard and an expert on medical tourism, called the model used by NASH and a few other similar operations a …
A Mexican Hospital, an American Surgeon, and a $5,000 Check (Yes, a Check)
From the article: I. Glenn Cohen, a law professor at Harvard and an expert on medical tourism, called the model used by NASH and a few other similar operations a …
Medical tourism: How far would you go for affordable healthcare?
From the video: Would you travel to Mexico or Canada for cheaper health care? Many Americans are crossing the border for affordable prescription drugs and medical procedures. This week on …
Is Medical Tourism Safe?
The Doctors welcomed Medical Tourism Association President Renee-Marie Stephano and Harvard professor and author of “Patients with Passports” Glenn Cohen to discuss just how safe going to other…
Regulation of Stem Cell Therapy Travel
From the abstract: Purpose of Review Stem cell therapies (hereinafter: SCT) hold tremendous promise for the treatment of a variety of diseases. Yet, alongside the medical potential, they pose significant…
Circumvention Medical Tourism and Cutting Edge Medicine: The Case of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy
From the article: “Medical Tourism” is the travel of patients from a home country to a destination country for the primary purpose of receiving health care. “Circumvention…
Medical Tourism: Once Ready for Takeoff, Now Stuck at the Gate
From the article: Consultants predicted it would be a major business. Large employers and insurers were experimenting with it. But medical tourism has not lived up to the heady expectations.…
Preventing Mitochondrial Disease: A Path Forward
Abstract: In a possible first, the heritable transmission of a fatal mitochondrial DNA disease (Leigh syndrome) may have been prevented by replacing the mutation-bearing mitochondria of oocytes with donated mutation-free…
India’s Hospitals Are Filling Up With Desperate Americans
From the article: Medical tourism thus presents both opportunities and risks. At its best, the industry can help India grow its health care system, using the revenues generated from international…
Medical Tourism, Medical Migration, and Global Justice: Implications for Biosecurity in a Globalized
From the paper: We live in the age of globalization. In medicine, that globalization has brought many benefits such as the diffusion of technology and the spread of health care…
Crowdfunding Medical Care: Identifying Ethical Implications
Crowdfunding for medical care—seeking financial contributions from a large number of donors, often via social networks, to pay medical expenses—is growing in popularity in both the…
Traveling for Assisted Suicide
This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures. Euthanasia was practiced…
Travel Abroad for Low-Cost Care: You could save money on cosmetic surgery, dental procedures and other treatments by traveling to another country.
From the article: Why the extra effort to court foreign patients? A couple of reasons, according to Patients With Passports (Oxford University Press), by I. Glenn Cohen: to make money …
Is Medical Tourism Ethical?: Profile of I. Glenn Cohen's work as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar
Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen served as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar, Class of 2015. The Greenwall Foundation recently published a profile of Cohen's project, "Is Medical Tourism Ethical?": …
Radio Sputnik Interview: Medical Tourism
As health care costs continue to rise in the United States, more and more Americans are now opting for alternatives abroad. Patients Beyond Borders has recently estimated that more than…
Review: I Glenn Cohen, Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics, Oxford University
From the review: Glenn Cohen’s Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics offers a thorough examination of the growing practice of medical tourism, the legal regulations governing…
Health Law Workshop: Nathan Cortez
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Regulation by Database" About the Presenter Nathan Cortez is Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor in Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University. He…
Chinese Market Offers New Life to Many Drugs
Excerpt from Article: [...] But the new trend also raises the question of whether China has become a dumping ground for inferior drugs. I. Glenn Cohen, a Harvard Law School professor…
Fertility Tourism: Options and Ethics
Description: What should you consider when going abroad (or coming to the United States) for fertility treatment? Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility &…
Le tourisme médical, entre risques et espoirs
From the article: « Les Canadiens sont en général fiers de leur système de santé. Le problème, ici, ce sont plut…
Medical tourism needs rules, says legal expert to speak in Vancouver: Health care systems in developed world pay for mistakes
Medical tourism is not only bringing ethical questions home with returning patients, but also higher costs to fix botched procedures or antibiotic resistant infections, says an international expert in the…
The Non-Spaces of Medical Tourism
From the article: I spent the last six years as a strange kind of tourist. I traveled the globe visiting hospitals. Not just any hospitals, but those participating in the …
Inbound medical tourism to Barbados: a qualitative examination of local lawyers’ prospective legal and regulatory concerns
Abstract: Background Enabled by globalizing processes such as trade liberalization, medical tourism is a practice that involves patients’ intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country. Empirical…
A New Chapter by Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen,: "Medical Tourism for Services Illegal in Patients' Home Country"
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen has authored a new chapter on medical tourism in the Handbook of Medical Tourism and Patient Mobility. Abstract: While much of the medical tourism literature…
Regulating Bodies Across Borders: Medical Tourism for Services Legal in the Home and Destination Country: Legal and Ethical Issues
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen has authored a new chapter on medical tourism. Abstract: ‘Medical tourism’ (to use the most common term, though ‘cross-border health care’…
Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
Live Webstream Watch the event live online! Description Medical tourism is a growing, multi-billion dollar industry involving millions of patients who travel abroad each year to get health care. Some…
Medical Tourism, Access to Health Care, and Global Justice
Abstract: Medical tourism – the travel of patients from one (the “home”) country to another (the “destination”) country for medical treatment – represents a growing business.…
Interview with Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen about “Patients with Passports”: Cohen paints a picture--a mural--of the many kinds of medical tourism
If your doctor won't recommend a medical procedure you want, you can go to another doctor. But would you travel to another country for the procedure? And how about…
Traveling patients, traveling disease: Ebola is just the tip of the iceberg
Many in the media and academia (myself included) have been discussing the Ebola crisis, and more specifically, the issues that arise as Ebola has traveled with infected patients and health…
The Routledge Companion to Bioethics
The Routledge Companion to Bioethics is a comprehensive reference guide to a wide range of contemporary concerns in bioethics. The volume orients the reader in a changing landscape shaped by…
Law Professor Discusses Medical Tourism
When most people hear the word “tourism,” they immediately think of flocking to the sandy beaches of the Caribbean or exploring museums in a European city. For Harvard…
Book Launch: Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
I. Glenn Cohen's new book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014) is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of medical tourism. Examining both…
Some Insurance Companies Ask Their Customers to Cross the Border for Care: Is the practice going to spread?
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen has co-authored a new piece in New Republic on the practice adopted by some insurance companies of sending clients across the border for less expensive…
Stem Cell Therapies: Opportunities for Ensuring the Quality and Safety of Clinical Offerings
Stem cells offer tremendous promise for advancing health and medicine. Whether being used to replace damaged cells and organs or else by supporting the body's intrinsic repair mechanisms, stem…
Globalization and Healthcare Ethics
Join Petrie-Flom Faculty Co-Director I. Glenn Cohen on May 19 as he leads a discussion on "Globalization and Healthcare Ethics" hosted by BioethxChat on Twitter.
Indian medicine, coming soon to an island near you
[...] NH will open a hospital in the Cayman Islands in February in partnership with Ascension Health, the largest non-profit provider in the US. Shetty and David Pryor, president and CEO…
These Two Americans Want Babies Through Indian Surrogates.: It's Not Been Easy.
[...] An estimated 2,000 foreign babies are born to Indian surrogates each year, according to research in the forthcoming book Patients With Passports: Medical Tourism, Ethics, and Law, by Harvard law professor…
VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: Stem Cell Therapies:: Opportunities for Assuring the Quality and Safety of Unregulated Clinical Offerings
Stem cells hold tremendous potential to advance health and medicine. Through replacement of damaged cells and organs or supporting intrinsic repair, stem cell offer promising treatments for debilitating diseases and…
Have Injury, Will Travel:: With medical costs exploding, young adventurers are opting to go under the knife overseas. Is the risk worth it?
[...] Most people who travel abroad for medical care are uninsured or underinsured, with high-copay or high-deductible insurance, says Glenn Cohen, a professor atHarvard Law School who studies medical tourism. [...]
Belinda Bennett on Globalization and the Future of Health Law: Introduced by I. Glenn Cohen
Globalization and the Future of Health Law: Harmonization or Diversity? A talk by Belinda Bennett, Professor of Health and Medical Law, University of Sydney Introduction by I. Glenn Cohen Tuesday,…
Now Available: Globalization of Healthcare
The edited volume stemming from the Petrie-Flom Center's 2011 Annual Conference, The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, I. Glenn Cohen, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2013), is now available…
As More Americans Have Surgeries Overseas, US Companies Consider ‘Medical Tourism’: a Health Care Option
Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Co-Director I. Glenn Cohen discusses safety issues and medical tourism.
American Companies Sending Workers on Surgery Vacations
Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Co-Director I. Glenn Cohen discusses safety issues and medical tourism.
The Globalization of Health Care: Book Talk and Discussion by Editor I. Glenn Cohen
I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center and Professor at Harvard Law School, discussed his new edited volume The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, published…
Why is medical tourism from Australia booming?
Glenn Cohen is a medical tourism researcher and professor at Harvard Law School in the United States. He says there is a lack of reliable data on the worldwide travel…
Stem Cell Therapy and Medical Tourism: Of Promise and Peril?
Experimental breakthroughs within the field of regenerative medicine are reported in the media on a daily basis worldwide. Despite this progress, the overwhelming majority of clinical problems for which stem…
Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law and Ethics
Presenting as part of the 2012-2013 Radcliffe Fellows Series, Petrie-Flom Faculty co-Director I. Glenn Cohen discussed the growing phenomenon of medical tourism, the practice of citizens of one country traveling…