Sometimes you just can’t wait to see a doctor. With the addition of more virtual services during COVID, these days you have more options.
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Searching symptoms online has become so common there is a name for the condition of health anxiety induced by self-diagnosis on the internet: Cyberchondria.
As diabetes progresses, insulin injections become the only treatment option. But the transition from oral medication to injectable insulin is often a bumpy one.
How do mental health apps compare to in-person therapy? A social worker and expert on technology and human services explains.
Three experts answer questions about the effectiveness, safety and side effects of medication abortion, using mifepristone followed by misoprostol.
By creating both an urgent need for mental health care and the need to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic is enabling telemedicine to go mainstream.
During the pandemic, health care providers began prescribing abortion pills without requiring in-person exams. This practice could help people access the care they need when abortion rights are in limbo.
Pandemic-related travel restrictions and facility closures initially jeopardized access to abortions, but the pandemic has also become a catalyst for more accessible ways to deliver abortion care.
Given the success of telehealth and virtual care during the pandemic, it would be a mistake to automatically return to pre-pandemic norms of health care.
Telemedical abortions are safe and ensure access for all those who may need treatment.
The pandemic has demonstrated the need for self-managed medical abortions carried out at home.
Some countries made abortion access easier during the pandemic. Others used it as an excuse for a crackdown.
The legal uncertainty surrounding telemedicine services is not without consequences. Patients may not have access to public protection remedies.
Even during COVID-19, there are ways to keep your teeth healthy.
With COVID-19 placing heavy demands on the health-care system, non-COVID patients may struggle to access care, putting women, people in poor health and those without a regular doctor at risk.
Moving primary care online and cancelling key services such as organ transplants is likely to have an outsized effect on BAME communities.
The old-fashioned telephone – well, maybe not a rotary dial, but a phone nonetheless – became a way during the pandemic for patients to ‘see’ their doctors. Could this trend continue?
With most therapy sessions now online, a psychologist explores whether more self-disclosure by therapists – sharing more about their own lives – might help their patients.
Health systems have very quickly pivoted to providing services online, but there is much more to do if we’re to unlock remote healthcare’s full potential.
Terminally ill patients in nine states and Washington, DC can use telemedicine to get a doctor’s approval to hasten their end of life. But family members must mix the lethal drug cocktail themselves.
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Ph.D candidate, INSPIRE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Sciences Po
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Health Sciences Researcher & PhD Student, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Bath
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Teaching Fellow (Integrated Care), University of Surrey
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Senior teaching fellow, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Michigan
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Professor of the Practice of Governance, University of Southern California
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Lecturer in Law, Keele University
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