SEEN UP NORTH – Festival Day still a success
How do you satisfy a gargantuan appetite not simply for Bajan food and drink, but for fun, music, education and camaraderie? The Friends of Barbados DLP Association, the New York arm of the ruling Democratic Labour Party, has been answering that question for the past seven years with its popular annual event Barbados Festival Day in Brooklyn.
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Over 70 Countries Converge to Craft a Truly Global Congress
ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA-- (Marketwire - Sept. 2, 2010) - The Medical Tourism Association announced today that over seventy countries have confirmed participation in the 3rd Annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress in Los Angeles, California, USA, September 22nd-24th, 2010. The congress is made up of three conferences 1) Medical Tourism Conference, 2) Expatriate Healthcare ...
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Annual Oyster Roast coming up on Saturday
The Arts Council of York County will host its annual Oyster Roast from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Community Performance Center, 249 E. Main St., Rock Hill.
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Sea, Sun, and Scalpels: Brazil's Bid to Be the Four Seasons of Medical Tourism
Brazil, which has seen the number of foreign patients rise from 48,000 in 2005 to 180,000 last year--and is growing at a 30% clip year-over-year--is poised to draw still more from its neighbors and the U.S. thanks to shorter flights and a bump from futebol. Brazilians endlessly repeat the old saw that the world thinks of only three things when it thinks of Brazil: samba, carnivale and football ...
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Feds not convinced MS treatment is safe, effective
Multiple sclerosis patients and some doctors are angry that the federal government is taking a wait-and-see approach toward funding clinical studies on the so-called "liberation treatment."
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