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#telemedicine

The unprecedented expansion of telehealth and mental health care during the pandemic was a monumental shift for behavioral health care in more ways than one.The flexibilities for behavioral health visits that resulted from the government's Covid-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration meant patients could more easily meet remotely with licensed clinicians at their convenience.

Nearly one in five people who are incarcerated battle opioid use disorder (OUD), and opioid-related overdose is the leading cause of death for those released from the criminal justice system.A new collaboration aims to change these stats.The collaboration, which was last week, is between Bicycle Health , and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The Biden administration has proposed new rules that will require patients to have an in-person medical evaluation before being prescribed most prescription medications by their doctors, with limited exceptions, according to a statement released on Friday.Under the new rule proposals from the Drug Enforcement Agency, patients would still be able to get less-addictive medications, such as antibiotics or birth control, prescribed to them by their doctors via telehealth.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed rules that would again require patients to visit doctors in-person to obtain prescriptions for certain medications that are frequently abused.What does the Adderall shortage in the US mean for ADHD patients?The announcement seeks to reverse policy changes made during the Covid-19 pandemic which allowed doctors to prescribe controlled drugs such as Adderall and OxyContin through virtual tele-health appointments.

AUSTIN, Texas The rate of people dying from cancer in the U.S. has declined over the past three decades, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society.The U.S. cancer death rate has fallen 33% since 1991, and Texas is also seeing this downward trend."As the population of Texas grows, we are seeing more cancer diagnoses and more deaths," said Dr. Mammen Sam, chair of the Texas Medical Association Committee on Cancer.

I hate this time of year.The holidays are past, even the post New Year's Cyrillic parties we called "Serbian Christmas" growing up in western Pennsylvania are faint memories obscured by rocket booms in Ukraine.Two weeks in, 2023's news is bad and here in California, it's cold and it's damp.