Telemedicine
When Brazil Banned Abortion Pills, Women Turned to Drug Traffickers
Women’s reliance on the black market for access to medication abortions means they may not follow best medical practice. When C., a 24-year-old teacher in Recife, bought misoprostol from a drug dealer last year, she searched Google to figure out how to take it. “Because it was illegal, there was no information about how to […]
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Abortion Pills Take the Spotlight as States Impose Abortion Bans
Since October 2020, Just the Pill has provided more than 2,500 telemedicine consultations with doctors to supply abortion pills by mail to patients in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming. Within a few days, it plans to deploy in Colorado the first of what will become “a fleet of mobile clinics” to park along state borders, […]
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Can Virtual Reality Help Autistic Children Navigate the Real World?
This article is part of Upstart, a series on young companies harnessing new science and technology. Vijay Ravindran has always been fascinated with technology. At Amazon, he oversaw the team that built and started Amazon Prime. Later, he joined the Washington Post as chief digital officer, where he advised Donald E. Graham on the sale […]
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Testing Positive for the Coronavirus Overseas: What You Need to Know
I’m positive! Do I need to self-isolate or quarantine? If you test positive, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends you should isolate and delay travel for 10 days, regardless of symptoms or a negative test taken within the isolation period. The country where you are staying may have its own rules for quarantine […]
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Abortion Pills Now Account for More Than Half of U.S. Abortions
More than half of recent abortions in the United States were carried out with abortion pills, according to preliminary data released on Thursday, a sign that medication abortion has increasingly become the most accessible and preferred method for terminating pregnancy. The report, issued by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found […]
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Dr. Ronald Weinstein, Telepathology Pioneer, Dies at 83
Dr. Weinstein finished his medical education at Tufts University in 1965 and completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, which at the time was experimenting with an early telemedicine program linking it by television camera to a clinic at Logan Airport in Boston. He was asked to look in on a few cases, and “that […]
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F.D.A. Will Permanently Allow Abortion Pills by Mail
For example, a research program that the F.D.A. allowed to provide telemedicine consultations and send pills by mail reported that 95 percent of the 1,157 abortions that occurred through the program between May 2016 and September 2020 were completed without requiring any follow-up procedure. Patients made 70 visits to emergency rooms or urgent care centers, […]
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