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The origins of medical tourism can be traced back to extreme antiquity, when people, who suffered from different illnesses, traveled to distant shores to get help from a well-known sorcerer or healer. While back then there were time and space constraints, right now a patient chooses a country and a clinic regardless...

No operations or chemotherapy needed? Is that possible? The new drug Opdivo will soon make treatment of the advanced stage melanoma available for the patients all over the world! Unfortunately, European countries face this kind of disease more frequently.

International medical tourism relates to travel for purposes of visiting health care facilities in other countries. The person’s visit may have different goals. Basically it is possible to obtain high-quality health care services, or general health rehabilitation (recreation medical tourism). Most often, the patient travels to ...

Cell therapy – is one of the fastest growing fields for the treatment of diseases. It’s based on the use of artificially collected cells or products by their cultivation. Until recently cell therapy was not commonly used. The reason was the high cost of the cell therapy and expensive equipment. Nowadays we find quite a large number ...

Malignant melanoma is highly aggressive form of skin cancer. For many patients with malign melanoma in an advanced stage, there was little hope until recently. In recent studies, there have been new and hopeful developments in the medical world.

Robotic assisted technology is the latest breakthrough in neurosurgery. Robotic Surgery Assistance or ROSA as it is commonly called, is now being used at the University clinic in Frankfurt, Germany. The advantages of using robotic surgery is minimally invasive, less pain, small incisions, reduced blood loss, quick recovery ...

Cancer is one of most common causes of human morbidity in the modern world. According to statistics, malignant formations is  the second most common factor contributing to death after cardiovascular diseases. Taking into account deteriorating ecology and increasing amount of carcinogens in the food, ...