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But pandemic-era rules that enabled it weren't renewed.
Kyle Zebley heads public policy for the American Telemedicine Association.
He says Medicare patients and their doctors are unwitting victims of the shutdown.
In the meantime, doctors' offices and hospitals must decide, do they continue offering the service, hoping to recoup payments from Medicare later, or do they require patients to come in?
obesity rates steadily climbed, evading various diet trends and public health attempts to curtail it.
But over the past three years, and tracking with the increased popularity of injectable obesity medications, Gallup's National Health and Well-Being Index finds obesity rates decreased,
to 37 percent in its most recent survey, down from 39.9 percent in 2022.
Meanwhile, use of GLP-1 drugs more than doubled to 12.4 percent over the past year and a half.
Still, the percentage of Americans diagnosed with diabetes hit an all-time high of 13.8 percent.
AI is increasingly used in a variety of ways to identify, track, and personalize the treatment of cancers.
Several new research studies unveiled at the European Society for Medical Oncology this week show how the technology can better detect cancers in things like CT scans of mesothelioma or track recurrent disease using blood-based biomarkers in colorectal or lung cancers.
In some studies, using these technologies close to doubled the length of survival for patients.
Researchers say breakthroughs like these are increasingly enabling medical treatment that is personalized to patients.
President Trump warned pregnant women last month against taking acetaminophen, the ingredient in Tylenol, claiming it causes autism.
Doctors say there's no causal evidence for that and say taking Tylenol is safer than a fever in pregnancy.
The poll by KFF found nearly 60 percent of Democrats say the president's statements were definitely false, but an almost equal percentage of Republicans believe the opposite.