The best travel insurance policy: honesty about your medical history
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/14/best-travel-insurance-policy-pre-existing-medical-conditions
But a pre-existing medical condition can make finding quality travel insurance difficult, not to mention more costly. From an insurer's point of view, you are a bigger risk. As the company will see it, having been ill you are more likely to need ...
Cuba travel, medical pot, and GOP: Letters
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-letters-cuba-travel-071514-20140714,0,3375532.story
Through the years, many famous people, including politicians, sport figures, millionaires and Hollywood luminaries, have been going to Cuba and allowing themselves to be used by Castro's propaganda machine. Many have done it out of sheer ignorance, ...
Travel Tip: How You Can Get Medical Help at the Airport
http://petergreenberg.com/2014/07/14/travel-tip-can-get-medical-help-airport/
medical It's one thing to get sick when you travel, but what if you need medical help before you even get on a flight? In some cases, the airport is exactly where you want to be. Leave it to Las Vegas to come up with a solution. McCarran International ...
Cyclists raise funds for medical travel for Southwest Colo. kids
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20140627/NEWS01/140629614/Cyclists-raise-funds-for-medical-travel-
JT Zink, 7, center, celebrates riding 28 miles on his bicycle in the Courage Classic in Summit County in 2013, along with Durango Derailers team captain Dr. Kelly Miller, from Pediatric Partners of the Southwest, and Les Lee, philanthropy director with ...
China's Travel Agents Cater to Demand for Medical Tourism
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-03/chinas-travel-agents-cater-to-demand-for-medical-tourism
Some enterprising Chinese travel agencies are taking advantage of the trend. The China Jiangsu Network reported that Yangzhou Travel is now offering medical tourism packages to Japan that include five-star hotels, fine cuisine, and airfare. A staffer ...
11 items to pack in your travel medical kit
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/07/11-items-to-pack-in-your-travel-medical-kit/index.htm
When you leave home, it pays to be prepared in case you get sick. Although you might be able to find medication at your destination, you could fall ill late at night and pharmacies might be closed. And if you're going abroad, consider that the national ...
Health Aware: Clinic offers better shot at healthy travel
http://napervillesun.suntimes.com/2014/07/16/health-aware-clinic-offers-better-shot-healthy-travel/
Several weeks before her 2013 trip to Africa, the Naperville resident first visited the Edward Hospital Travel Medicine Clinic to see what she could do to stay healthy while traveling. She had learned of the clinic from her father and fellow traveler ...
Grant will help out with Iowa City medical travel
http://www.thonline.com/news/tri-state/article_c71e524e-7938-586f-80da-522fd2dee679.html
A nearly $4,000 grant will fund more than 130 trips to medical appointments in Iowa City for local low-income women and children. Women's Giving Circle recently awarded $3,990 to Project Concern and Region 8 Regional Transit Authority, a press release ...