When Laika Kayani started to lose her voice late one night last year, she picked up her iPhone and got connected to a doctor through a video-chat service called American Well. Kayani, who works at a health-tech company in San Francisco, used the app because her young son and husband were asleep and there were no […]

While some businesses may frown upon government-imposed regulations, MDLive is counting on Florida’s new telehealth laws to support its plan for rapid growth. The state Senate passed House Bill 23 on April 29 to establish standards of practice for health care providers that facilitate long-distance doctor visits through telecommunications technologies, also known as telehealth or […]

The saga of tainted valsartan has taken another turn with an online pharmacy that tests its medications before dispensing them finding yet another probable carcinogen in lots of the blood pressure medication from multiple manufacturers. The pharmacy filed a citizen petition asking the US FDA to tighten its globally harmonized limit for the residual solvent.