WASHINGTON — As U.S. doctors scale back their use of opioid painkillers, a new option for hard-to-treat pain is taking root: ketamine, the decades-old surgical drug that is now a trendy psychedelic therapy. “A medical journal will publish a few papers saying, ‘Oh, look, this is doing good things,’ and then there’s rampant off-label use, without necessarily the science behind …
The federal government is under pressure to make telehealth services for abortion and reproductive health permanently available via Medicare. Key points: Changes providing easier access to telehealth reproductive care are due to expire in December The health minister has commissioned a wideranging review of telehealth services An expert says 30pc to 50pc of women have no local access to medical …