Reproductive care company carafem launched a new process that aims to provide faster access to abortion pills.
Patients living in Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico and Maryland can be evaluated for the medications without a mandatory telephone or video call. After completing a form on carafem's website, medical staff members review patient history and share information about the process and options...
Online searches for abortion medications soared after a Supreme Court draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked in early May, according to an analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Researchers analyzed Google searches originating in the U.S. that mentioned terms like "abortion pill" or the medications "mifepristone/mifeprex" or "misoprostol/cytotec." They pulled data from January 1,...
The two latest bills in the quest to make telemedicine in Arkansas more like the rest of the country have passed.
House Bill 1437 aims to ease up the restrictions on telemedicine laws that were enacted in 2015 by eliminating the requirement that patients must be at a healthcare facility to receive telemedicine services. The companion legislation, Senate Bill 146, decrees the originating site can...
The state of Idaho will no longer ban women from using telemedicine to receive abortion-inducing medication, following the settlement of a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands had filed a federal lawsuit in December 2015 to overturn two Idaho telemedicine laws that contained restrictions to women seeking abortions, claiming that...
Telemedicine seems to have been swept up in the contentious abortion debate, as Texas has effectively banned the remote prescribing of "abortion pills" and several states are considering similar restrictions. But some proposed legislation may have the side effect of curtailing telemedicine in many other, less-controversial cases, while mobile technologies may provide a means of getting around the...
