Travel Health and Medicine

In threatening to flee to Costa Rica for health care if Obama's plan passes, the talk-radio king embraced a system where 98% of the population is covered and private insurance is rare

Michelle Williams is three months pregnant and determined to experience childbirth the way nature intended. But because her previous baby was delivered through an incision in her abdomen and uterus – a cesarean section – she has to travel more than an

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh’s model health-care system may be one of Latin America’s longest- standing state-run programs, where 98 percent of the population is covered and private insurance is rare.

Doctors found accepting gifts, travel, hospitality or money from pharmaceutical companies risk being banned from practicing medicine for one year or more, besides being fined Rs 1 lakh or more.

As I write this, I am currently at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington. I transferred here the first Wednesday in January after spending just over eight months and 14 surgeries to correct disability-related problems arising from my spinal c