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Hip resurfacing offers options to boomers’ aging joints »

Joe Mitchell always assumed his chronic leg pain was due to tight muscles, but as the pain became more intense in recent years, his physicians uncovered the culprit: an arthritic hip. He explored treatment options, and was dismayed to learn that he was not an immediate candidate for the main treatment for arthritic hips: hip [...]

Medical tourism is an emerging trend »

Global competition is an emerging trend in the health care industry as a growing number of high-quality health care facilities in developing countries have begun catering to so-called “medical tourists” or “medical travelers” from other countries. Uninsured patients and those from countries where care is rationed by waiting are also attracted to high-quality health care [...]