Gastric bypass — Care Abroad The stomach is divided with staples to leave a small pouch at the top, and that pouch is joined to the lower part of the small intestine, so food passes most of the stomach and the first stretch of bowel without meeting… nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/gastric-bypass/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 43K
Regulating cell and tissue therapies — Care Abroad The law that decides whether a cell preparation is a lightly regulated tissue or a medicine requiring authorisation, and therefore whether a clinic may sell it. nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/rule/stem-cell-regulation/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 35K
CAR T-cell therapy — Care Abroad A patient's own T cells are collected from the blood, genetically modified in a factory to carry a receptor for a marker on their cancer, grown up, frozen, shipped back and infused after a short course of chemotherapy… nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/car-t/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 53K
Unapproved stem cell treatment — Care Abroad A cell preparation is injected, infused or implanted as a treatment for a condition it has not been approved to treat. nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/procedure/stem-cell-unproven/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 47K
Vietnam — Care Abroad A country that sends more money out for treatment than it takes in, and that is building a dental and cosmetic trade in Ho Chi Minh City on the difference. nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/country/vietnam/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 225K
Wellness travel — Care Abroad Travel undertaken to maintain or improve wellbeing rather than to treat a condition. nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/word/wellness-travel/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 32K
Buying an organ, and being transplanted abroad — Care Abroad Two questions that are usually run together and should not be. First: may a person be paid for an organ? Almost everywhere, no, and the statutes say so in similar words. nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/rule/transplant-prohibition/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 57K
Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism — Care Abroad A clot forms in a deep vein, usually in the leg, and part of it travels to the lung. Surgery raises the risk and long-haul flight raises it, and a patient who has both in the same fortnight carries both. nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/risk/dvt-pe/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
The Dominican mycobacterial outbreaks, 2013–14 and 2017 — Care Abroad Two multi-state clusters of rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria — environmental bacteria that infect surgical wounds and take months of antibiotics to clear — in United States residents who had cosmetic surgery… nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/event/dominican-republic-ntm-outbreak/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 34K
Arrival and consent — Care Abroad The patient lands, is examined for the first time by the person who will operate, and signs a consent form. In a domestic pathway these events are separated by weeks. nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/step/arrival-and-consent/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
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