05-Jun-17 In March 2017, Beijing banned package tours to Korea, casting a pall over the tourism industry. Numbers of Chinese medical tourists visiting Korea fell in 2016 after problems with control over quality, unlicensed clinics, and publicity about treatment problems. [image: IMTJ]

01-Jun-17 Appointment ticket touts are prevalent in the Chinese medical system and are attracting attention as they drive up costs and reduce availability of appointments at the best hospitals. [image: Daily Mail]

02-Jun-17 Singapore’s Stendard, an online service helping medical device manufacturers fulfill regulations documentation, has announced pre-seed funding. Stendard’s cloud-based software allows subscribers to generate the documentation they need to comply with industry standards, in only 10 hours. [image: Stendard]

22-May-17 The Indian government will roll out India's first Medical Tourism and Wellness policies in Jun-17. Designed to incentivise medical tourism and wellness, they will require hospitals and wellness centres to register, and to list the prices of procedures. [image: BCCL / ET Healthworld]

12-May-17 India's restrictions on medical visas to Pakistanis are having a serious impact on medical tourism in India. Several laboratories revealed that over 600 Pakistani patients used to visit India per month and now those numbers have dwindled. [image: The Times Of India]