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The convenience and comfort telehealth delivers for managing nonurgent and routine care for mental health, chronic disease, or pain is too good to revert back to always in-person appointments. And telehealth is changing the way providers compete — every system is now in direct competition with an expanded list of players. It’s also changing the way consumers select providers. For example, they are moving their care to those that can provide their entire health history online.

Nearly 25% of fentanyl powder seized in 48 states in 2022 contained xylazine. Xylazine causes severe injection site wounds that can require amputation and puts drug users at higher risk for overdose and death.

Pandemic-era telemedicine exceptions that currently allow telehealth prescription of Schedule II narcotics and stimulants without an initial in-person evaluation are to be ended on May 11.

Experiments have confirmed a connection between rheumatoid arthritis flare-ups and periodontitis.

The extensive training requirements and caps on patients treated have been removed. That means all prescriptions for buprenorphine now require only a standard DEA registration number.

The Nerivio device is worn on the arm and uses painless electrical stimulation to activate peripheral nerves, thereby inducing a conditioned pain modulation response. It is controlled by a smartphone app and is recommended to be used every other day for migraine prevention.