WASHINGTON & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global well-being improvement leader Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) and world-leading management consulting firm Gallup have released their comprehensive analysis of well-being around the world, the Gallup-Healthways State of Global Well-Being: 2014 Country Well-Being Rankings Report. According to the report, Panama was the nation with the highe...

Wikimedia Commons Sunrise, FL (PressAdvantage) – On May 8, Marina Medical hosted its first Gluteal Augmentation workshop in Costa Rica in partnership with Hospital CIMA and Dr. Luis Da Cruz. This workshop showcased the use of The Triple Tool to achieve optimal results for gluteal implants. Dr. Da Cruz began the two day workshop with several lectures covering comprehensive topics surrounding...

Dr. Karla Hidalgo A renowned dermatologist in Costa Rica explains: “A good sunshade with UV protection is even better than a palm tree's shade, and you not always may find a nice, shady palm tree at the beach". Have you ever thought about how many hours spent at the beach can affect your family? Too much unprotected exposure to the sun can increase the risk of skin cancer, but there is a s...

Subcell of TBC1D16. More images available at proteinatlas.com Madrid, Jun 1 (EFE).- An international team of researchers has found the mechanism whereby cancerous cells manage to spread from their original location to other parts of the body through the process known as metastasis. The results of the study, headed by Manel Esteller, the director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program...

Source: HealthRevive.com VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A new service is set to change the way people interact with their physicians. Available now as an online membership and on the Apple App Store, Health Revive (http://www.healthrevive.com) stores and maintains personal health information and lets patients communicate directly with their doctors. Gone are the d...

Source: Wikimedia Commons San Jose, May 25 (EFE).- Hospital authorities in this capital confirmed Monday the death of another of the sextuplets born in Costa Rica on May 17, only three of whom remain alive, all of them in "delicate" condition.   Neonatologist Patricia Fallas told Efe that the baby named Andres died at San Jose's Mexico Hospital when his brain, heart and kidneys sudd...

Scanoa 3D Although dental technologies have greatly developed in the 21st century, not many clinics in Costa Rica or around the world have adopted them. Dental equipment tends to be very expensive, and thus few clinics are willing to invest in the latest technology. Small dental practices that are just starting up are often not able to afford the initial investment, and others that have been e...

Diego, the fourth baby delivered to a couple who had sought fertility treatments in Costa Rica, passed away in his incubator at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the San Juan de Dios Hospital, a flagship medical center that is part of the national public health care system. According to a news report filed by journalist Lady Rojas of online news daily Costa Rica Hoy, baby Diego weighed...

Source: Wikimedia Commons San Jose, May 18 (EFE).- The first sextuplets in the history of Costa Rica - four boys and two girls - were born by Cesarean section at San Jose's Mexico Hospital, a spokesperson of the medical center said Monday. The sextuplets are doing well, though their birth Sunday night was premature after only six weeks of gestation, and for that reason they are being protec...

Montevideo, May 16 (EFE).- Organizations for and against abortion in Uruguay clashed about whether an 11-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped by a man of 40 should continue with the gestation process now in its 15th week. The anti-abortion movement known as Pro-Vida published Friday a communique slamming the statement by a group of six human-rights NGOs that came out in favor of ...

Pixabay Commons It is often said that a smile is an inexpensive method to improve one's appearance. This is an axiom that should apply to everyone; unfortunately, quite a few people feel self-conscious about what they consider to be a less-than-dazzling smile. The fact about facial aesthetics is that teeth make up about 90 percent of a smile. People who feel that their dentition is not up t...

COYOL, Costa Rica (May 6, 2015) – For the second year in a row, Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has received a Shingo award from the prestigious Shingo Institute, part of the Jon R. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.  The company’s facility located at Coyol, in the Alajuela province of  Costa Rica, has earned the Shingo Bronze Medallion for successfully delivering on s...

Close up of a Marijuana plant flowering during the final stages of growth San Juan, May 4 (EFE).- A number of organizations celebrated Monday the decision of Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana derivatives, a measure that has been debated for almost two years by the island's legislature. The director of descriminalizacion.org, Rafael Torruell...

San Jose, Costa Rica. May 3, 2015 (The Costa Rica Star) – More North American and European travelers are engaging in the budding dental tourism segment, and they are seeking treatment at clinics such as the Flikier Dental Institute in Costa Rica. Dental tourists travel abroad with more than just affordability in mind; they are interested in modern, high-quality dental procedures as well as the opp...

Source: MSP An 8-year old girl from an indigenous tribe in Costa Rica was elated to learn that her stay at the hospital would culminate with an exciting helicopter ride over the green mountains of Talamanca. Officers from the Air Surveillance Service, a specialized unit serving the Ministry of Public Security (Spanish initials: MSP), flew a humanitarian mission to get a little girl and a relat...

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - April 23, 2015) - More than 50 facilities have demonstrated their commitment to patient safety by gaining accreditation from the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF). AAAASF is celebrating its 35th year of promoting the highest quality patient safety in the ambulatory (office-based or outpatient) surgery setting. AAAASF req...

Wikimedia Commons San Juan, Apr 20 (EFE).- Seeds for the first legal marijuana crop were sown at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica on Monday, a few days after the amendments to the bill decriminalizing marijuana for medicinal and religious purposes came into effect. In a statement, UWI said that Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell p...

The medical use of marijuana by the public healthcare system of Costa Rica, known as La Caja, could generate $9 million in revenue, a figure that would be equivalent to 0.2 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP). Such is a legislative proposal that was presented last year by lawmaker Marvin Atencio, who represents the ruling Citizens' Action political party (Spanish initials: PAC). ...

By Teresa Bouza San Francisco, Apr 20 (EFE).- Apple and IBM have announced projects to enhance cell phones' use as medical devices that gather and analyze data on different conditions, turning the devices into tools in the diagnostic process. ResearchKit, a tool on Apple's iPhones, will be available starting Tuesday for medical researchers developing apps for diagnoses or to collect and anal...

Wikimedia Commons Caracas, Apr 7 (EFE).- Some 13,000 doctors have emigrated from Venezuela in recent years, the president of the Venezuelan Medical Federation, Douglas Leon Natera, said Tuesday, while warning that "the crisis" in the sector has a "tendency to gradually get worse."   "Around 13,000 doctors have gone" from the nation's 300 private and state hospitals, specifically "7,...

On April 4th, 1885, the international Red Cross and Red Crescent movement formally inaugurated operations in Costa Rica. On this Holy Saturday, Red Cross staff and volunteers in Costa Rica would certainly like to take a moment to celebrate their 130th anniversary of providing a most noble service in our country; alas, they are very busy rendering emergency medical service to residents and visitors...

Credit: Flickr Commons; Thomas Pompenigg Seattle, Mar 30 (EFE).- The United States grants citizenship to any person born in its territory, a constitutional provision that in recent years has promoted the creation and expansion of a new business: maternity tourism. With a neatly organized network of agencies and hotels, maternity tourism targets pregnant women, most of them Chinese, who want...

Source; Wikiemdia Commons Prosecutors and agents from the Office of Judicial Investigations (Spanish initials: OIJ) are searching for two expats who may have been involved in the death of a medical tourist in Guanacaste. As previously reported by The Costa Rica Star, Bente Soldberg was a 42-year old woman from Norway who passed away at a facility that offered drug rehabilitation services. A...

Army Maj. Marielos Vega listens to Sherry Moore’s heart while Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) James Watts looks on in the cardiology department at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, March 17, 2015. U.S. Army photo by Robert T. Shields By Elaine Sanchez Brooke Army Medical Center JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, March 18, 2015 – When Marielos Vega was a child living on a coffee p...

Source: Wikimedia Commons A 42-year old woman from Norway who came to Costa Rica in search of a controversial addiction treatment suffered a fatal heart attack after ingesting ibogaine, a hallucinogenic substance derived from plants native to Western Africa. According to a news report filed by David Delgado of national newspaper La Nacion, the Norwegian woman passed away in 2014, but her cause...

Source: Rythmia MALIBU, Calif., March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Scott Disick is checking into Rythmia Life Advancement Center (RLAC) in Costa Rica to take advantage of the center's highly regarded iboga treatment plan. Scott Disick is better known as the husband of Kourtney Kardashian; they have three children. Kourtney Kardashian and her family are both notable and notorious for their starr...

Source: Flickr Commons MUMBAI, March 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Cosmetic Surgery & Services Market Analysis 2015-2019 is the latest analysis on this vertically growing market. It is currently worth over $20 billion and is set to rise to over $27 billion by 2019. This comprehensive report is supported by 60 tables & figures over 275 pages and is presented as follows: Global mark...

Wikimedia Commons Back in March 2010, the conservative and controversial radio host Rush Limbaugh mentioned his intention of coming to Costa Rica if and when the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as “Obamacare,” would be enacted. Mr. Limbaugh actually set a date for this move, which would ostensibly take place a few days from today. To wit, we have this recent conversation on Twitter: ...

Source: Cruz Roja Costarricense A five-year old boy from the United States tragically lost his life while on a family vacation in Costa Rica. According to a news report filed by Patricia Durán of daily tabloid Diario Extra, the unfortunate incident occurred in a rural hotel located about 13 kilometers away from the town of Buena Vista, in the Liberia canton of Guanacaste. The news report ex...

Bing Commons In Costa Rica, a few drug rehabilitation centers offer a controversial treatment that consists of taking certain amounts of Ibogaine, a substance extracted from a few plants that are native to Western Africa. Ibogaine is extracted from these flowering shrubs, and the result is a substance with psychoactive and psychedelic properties. Research on the therapeutic potential of Ibogai...

CIMA Hospital in San Jose is often visited by medical tourists Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) February 12, 2015 - Living in a sunny, low-cost, laidback destination overseas doesn't mean foregoing good healthcare. In many countries outside the U.S., the healthcare is excellent and affordable. Malaysia received the top score in the healthcare category of International Living’s just- released Annual Gl...

Source: PSU The following press release was originally published by News Services department of Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.  PLYMOUTH, N.H. – A dozen Plymouth State University student nurses spent the first 10 days of the new year in Costa Rica, home of some of the world’s most pristine rain forests and beaches. But these students weren’t on vacation; in fact, they were hard...

Source: Fuerza Publica Fuerza Publica officers assigned to the National Border Police of Costa Rica spent an entire night walking across beaches, rivers and the thick jungle of Burica, near the southern border with Panama, to rescue an indigenous child of the Ngöbe Bugle (or guaymí) ethnicity. The child was suffering from an acute and dangerous infection due to a wound that he had sustained da...

An alleged fraudster from the United States has reportedly spent the last nine months in the prestigious CIMA Hospital near San Jose, where he is supposed to be in the custody of officers from Fuerza Pública, the national police force of Costa Rica. The suspect was remanded to a correctional center by a criminal court back in May of 2014. Cyrus Anoushirvan Sepher, a 51-year old male with Irania...

Twin ultrasound. Source: Wikimedia Commons Earlier this year, a couple from Tabarcia, a semi-rural and suburban community in the province of San Jose, arrived in the San Juan de Dios Metropolitan Hospital with high hopes of experiencing the delivery of twin baby girls. This expectation was based on five ultrasound imaging procedures, which showed Ms. Leidy Ureña was pregnant with two girls. Ms...

Partial Endocrine System February 02, 2015 12:21 PM - JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) will convene the first-ever, Pan-American Scientific Symposium: Clinical Endocrinology in Latin America on February 26-28 in San Jose, Costa Rica. “It’s a transcultural opportunity for us to share and adapt our AACE guidelines and educationa...

Source: Cruz Roja Costarricense James Michael Lindsay was 67 years old when he tragically passed away in Costa Rica. He was standing in line at an airline counter of the Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) when he felt ill and asked for help. Red Cross rescuers on duty at SJO determined that Mr. Lindsay suffered a cardiac arrest and started basic, and later advanced, lifesaving procedu...

Source: Cruz Roja Costarricense Red Cross paramedics and emergency officials from the San Rafael Hospital in Alajuela are at odds with each other after a 67-year old male from the United States suffered a cardiac and respiratory arrest at the main international airport in Costa Rica. The discord includes allegations of refusal of care and misuse of emergency resources.   The man rep...

Source: Embassy of Japan On the morning of Wednesday, December 10th, the Embassy of Japan in Costa Rica officially handed the keys to three Toyota 4x4 ambulance vehicles that will be utilized by the Red Cross rescue squads of Porvenir in Limon, Hojancha in Guanacaste and Paquera in Puntarenas. These three emergency vehicles are part of the State of Japan’s Assistance-Community-Projects (APC) f...

A draconian situation in Costa Rica was recently reported by Jimena Soto of online news daily CRHoy.com, and it involves a denial of public health care to a foreign woman who is pregnant with the child of her husband of four years, who happens to be a Costa Rican citizen.   According to the news report, the husband of the Nicaraguan woman who was summarily denied benefits by La Caja,  C...