Care AbroadEvents (8)
The conferences, the rulings, the outbreaks, the years the field turned.
Conferences (1)
IMTJ Summit, Medical Travel Awards
The trade's own annual gathering, run by the publisher of the International Medical Travel Journal alongside an awards ceremony.
Outbreaks (2)
NTM surgical site infections, Dominican Republic, M. abscessus cosmetic surgery cluster
Two multi-state clusters of rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria — environmental bacteria that infect surgical wounds and take months of antibiotics to clear — in United States residents who had cosmetic surgery…
Fusarium solani meningitis outbreak, Matamoros epidural outbreak
An outbreak of fungal meningitis among people — almost all of them residents of the United States — who had procedures under epidural anaesthesia at two clinics in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in the first five months of…
Rulings (1)
cross-border healthcare directive, patients' rights directive
The European Parliament and the Council adopted Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare on 9 March 2011, signed at Strasbourg by J. Buzek for the Parliament and E.
Turning points (4)
New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1, the Lancet Infectious Diseases NDM-1 paper
A study published online in August 2010 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the spread of NDM-1 — New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1, an enzyme that destroys carbapenems, the antibiotics kept for infections…
COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, the year the borders closed
The year cross-border care stopped. On 11 March 2020 the Director-General of the World Health Organization told a media briefing in Geneva: "We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a…
Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism
A consensus statement agreed at an international summit in Istanbul in 2008, convened by The Transplantation Society and the International Society of Nephrology, which defined organ trafficking, transplant commercialism…
Istanbul hair clinics, saç ekimi turizmi
The growth of hair restoration surgery sold to foreign buyers in Türkiye, mostly in Istanbul, into the most visible single procedure in cross-border care.