Medical Tourism Blog

Scott MacStravic, writing on WorldHealthCareBlog, has an interesting post on the addictive nature of weight loss drugs, and associated side effects. "What could be better, from a money-making perspective, than coming out with an expensive drug that would be taken by the majority of the population for their entire lives? And there are a number of weight-control drugs already available, working on the body’s processing of fat, on appetite suppressing, energy expenditures, or almost anything that affects body weight and mass.
All will undoubtedly cause side effects, such as the gastro-intestinal problems and occasional embarrassments associated with GlaxoSMithKline’s Alli, and headaches, nausea, insomnia, anxiety and dry mouth effects of Orexigen Therapeutic’s experimental Empatic'

Right on. And I'd like to add that when you lose weight like this, it leaves behind a lot of sagging skin, which brings us to cosmetic surgery, which means lip suction, and since we're a medical tourism blog, let's call it lipo tourism. A quick google search revealed that I wasn't the first one to come up this particularly brilliant title, and that brings us to bariatric weight loss surgery and Michelle Boasten, who is an expert on this, and has written a book about it called Lipo Tourism... The American's "Nip & Tuck" Medical Tourism Guide to Cosmetic Surgery & More Outside the US - Amazon link. Naturally, when you bump into a published author with a book on cosmetic surgery abroad, what do you do? You send them a request for an interview. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Just a remider that interviews in the coming week include Sparrow Mahoney, CEO - Medicaltourism.com, Brian Gooch, Gooch & Associates ( JCI Consulting firm ) and Dr. Jason Yap, Director, Healthcare Services, Singapore Tourism Board. Stay tuned.