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Fox News Takes a Costa Rica Medical Vacation
Colonoscopy in Costa Rica: Fox 2 Detroit weather man turns medical tourist to save thousands.
Fox 2 television meteorologist Chris Edwards recently traveled to Costa Rica for fun in the sun, tree gliding and… a colonoscopy.
Knowing he needed this medical examination, Edwards browsed around Metro Detroit and found it could cost him as much as $7,000 [...]
Paralysis Leads Arizona Boy to Costa Rica for Stem-Cell Treatment
Six-year-old Shaun Doss lost the use of his legs when a red-light runner going nearly 50 mph T-boned his family’s truck in south Chandler in 2007.
Shaun’s father, Robert, and mother, Michelle, believe there is a controversial, $50,000 stem-cell procedure that can restore some feeling to his legs, perhaps even allow him to walk again. And [...]
Colorado MS Patient to Receive Stem-Cell Treatments in Costa Rica
Multiple sclerosis will have to try harder to get the best of Mary Posta. Thanks to an outpouring of donations in the past 10 months, the 59-year-old Ridgway, Colorado woman is slated to receive adult stem-cell treatments at a clinic in Costa Rica in the hopes of stalling symptoms of her disease.
“Everything has been [...]
The Costa Rica Health Care System, Medical Vacations and What The U.S. Can Learn
Statistics from the World Health Organization place Costa Rica third in life expectancy, sandwiched neatly behind Japan and France and ahead of Great Britain and the United States; and with a per capita income about one tenth of the other four.
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