What Canadians need to know about travel health insurance
http://globalnews.ca/news/1072445/what-canadians-need-to-know-about-travel-health-insurance/
... exactly travel medical insurance covers and doesn't cover in an emergency. Travel Health Insurance Association of Canada (THIA) President John Thain says the Mexican hospital that asked Katarina Pacileo for $2,500 up front was an unusual situation.
Medical Travel: If Bill Gates Wanted to Do Something Good for the World
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21189-medical-travel-if-bill-gates-wanted-to-do-something-good-for-the-world
Medical travel (Image: Medical travel via Shutterstock)Everyone knows Bill Gates, the man who got incredibly rich by gaining a near monopoly in the computer operating system market. In the last decade Gates has devoted much of his money to the ...
Bugs will travel: Public health watches foreign outbreaks
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Bugs+will+travel+Public+health+watches+foreign+outbreaks/9369646/story.html
If you ever wonder why public health officials worry about far-flung diseases ? the latest bird flu, the new MERS coronavirus ? the incidents above pretty much explain it. Bugs travel. Or as public health folks like to put it, infectious diseases ...
Can rest lead to rust?
http://www.elsberrydemocrat.com/?p=10931
Through television, radio and myriad other forms of media we are encouraged to push ourselves to new and greater heights and to maintain with vigilance the skills and abilities we have already mastered. Even some of the expressions we use on a ...
CDC issues travel health advisory for St. Martin
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2013/12/18/1218-CDC-issues-travel-health-advisory-for-St-Martin.html
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- U.S. health authorities have issued a travel advisory for the French Caribbean dependency of St. Martin because of a mosquito-borne viral disease that is apparently being spread locally at the start of the winter tourist season ...
Sleaford mental health nurse awarded travel scholarship to America
http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Mental-health-nurse-awarded-travel-scholarship/story-20427266-detail/story.html
A Lincolnshire mental health nurse is set to travel to America after being awarded a Florence Nightingale scholarship. Beth Watson, a staff nurse at the Ash Villa inpatient unit in Sleaford, will travel to the USA for five weeks. She was awarded a ...
US cautions on travel to Sochi Olympics
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/10/sochi-olympics-travel-alert/4416215/
The State Department issued a travelers' alert Friday for the Sochi Olympics, offering standard security tips while traveling and cautioning about medical facilities and Russia-related terrorism concerns in Georgia. Americans attending the Games ...
Brrrr! Single-digit temperatures could cause health and travel hazards
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20140106/NJNEWS/301060033/Brrrr-Single-digit-temperatures-could-cause-health-travel-hazards
What is the polar vortex that's making us so cold?...: A blast of brutally cold air - thanks to the polar vortex - is roaring across the central and eastern USA early this week, sending temperatures to levels not seen in 20 years.
