The struggling genetic-testing 23andMe is looking for a buyer for the virtual-care business it acquired in 2021, Business Insider has learned.

People from Akron in Hale County welcomed a new telehealth station to the community. It’s a large booth that you can walk into and immediately talk to someone about health problems. This is part of a partnership between Auburn University, the University of West Alabama, and several state and local partners.

Physicians would have to register with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for telehealth prescribing of certain controlled substances under a proposed rule issued Wednesday by the agency. "DEA's goal is to provide telehealth access for needed medications while ensuring patient safety and preventing the diversion of medications into the illicit drug market,

The new notice of proposed rulemaking adheres to calls from Congress and industry for the agency to create a special telemedicine registration system. Its three-tiered approach could cost telehealth companies over $40,

“Basically, the farther the patients resided from an abortion facility, the more they were depending on the pills being mailed to them,” co-lead researcher Dr. Emily Godfrey, an OB/GYN and family doctor with the University of Washington, said in a news release.

Instead, people on Medicare won’t get the two years of continued coverage for telehealth appointments and five years’ for acute hospital at home programs that were in the bill Congress nearly voted into law in December 2024.

At the pace of our lives these days, the mobile phone has increasingly stopped being merely the quick way to keep in touch-it acts as a doorway into primary health care. If setting a doctor’s appointment,

However, telehealth advocates raised concerns about restrictions included in the rule, with one group asking President-elect Donald Trump to withdraw the proposal.

Long-term care providers who prescribe controlled substances via telehealth may soon be subject to a tiered federal registration system.

Nationally, telehealth claim lines increased from 4.80% of medical claim lines in September to 4.89% in October, marking a 2% rise. Regional increases varied, with the West seeing the largest growth at 2.8%, while the Midwest experienced a 3.7% decrease.

Every region in the US showed increased telehealth use in October, except for the Midwest, where use dropped, according to the latest figures from FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, released Wednesday.

Taking abortion pills at home helps reduce stigma associated with pregnancy termination, according to recent findings. “It’s intuitive to understand that people are afraid of protesters outside of abortion clinics.