Earlier expectations that the Administration would impose price controls on drugs had crushed the health-care sector, which has created a buying opportunity, the traders said.

Medical tourism has been a growing segment of Thailand's tourism and health-care sectors.

Service jobs, which had long offset declines in goods-producing jobs, fell by a total of 21,000 despite a 55,000 increase in the booming health-care sector.

The health-care sector was the big winner last year, rising 74.4 percent.

PLWA may also face discrimination from those employed in the health-care sector.

To drive costs out of the health-care sector, medical logistics providers are adopting supply chain management theories.

Today, sadly, we are now importing people into the health-care sector in large numbers because we have such a shortage of skills.

In the first years, Uitzendbureau Amstelveen mainly provided personnel for the insurance industry, banks and the health-care sector.

In 1987, it decided to leave the medical insurance business despite growth of the health-care sector because of the growing dominance of the majors.

In Brooklyn's growing health-care sector, home-care employment more than quadrupled to 12,160 jobs between 1990 and 2005, the last full year for which data was available.