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Costa Rican companies visit U.S. to promote medical tourism services

Local companies' headed to New Orleans seeking to make new contacts with potential business partners and to attract medical tourists to Costa Rica.

U.S. Southern Command supports Costa Rican indigenous communities

The 16-member group joined 30 Costa Rican physicians to provide indigenous people with assistance in preventive medicine, dentistry, pediatrics, ophthalmology and gynecology.

No shirt, no shoes, no hospital visiting privileges, says Costa Rican Supreme Court 

The judges were not impressed with the complainant’s "sun’s out, guns out” argument and upheld the hospital’s right to impose a public dress code.

Untimely death of Costa Rica woman in US leaves family with $70,000 in medical bills

The 41-year-old Costa Rican woman was in the U.S. without health or travel insurance and accumulated roughly $300,000 in health care costs during a six-day hospital admission.

World Bank: Zika will cost Latin America $3.5 billion in 2016

Most of the projected losses to the region take the form of foregone income from tourists — especially pregnant women — who might cancel their trips out of concern that contracting the virus could lead to birth defects.

Costa Rica doctors association alarmed by low vacciation rates of personnel as 17 dead from AH1N1 virus

Only 30 percent of the health care workers at the Costa Rican hospital with the largest concentration of deaths linked to H1N1 this season were vaccinated.

Costa Rica’s poor live longer than poor in the US, study finds

If you're poor in Costa Rica, you'll probably live longer than your relatively poor counterparts in the U.S., according to a new study.

As AH1N1 death toll rises to 14 in Costa Rica, authorities say it’s too late in season for vaccination

The AH1N1 virus was responsible for 14 deaths in Costa Rica in 2015, with a spike in deaths in December, according to public health officials.

At Costa Rica hospital, dog therapy becomes part of treatment for child patients

Doctors say four-legged friends have helped children at San Vicente de Paul Hospital improve their moods and reduce stress, anxiety and blood pressure, all with just a little canine TLC.

Costa Rica seeks to ban child beauty pageants

A legislative commission has approved two draft bills to fight the sexualization of minors and expand benefits to parents of children with severe health conditions.

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