Struggling genetic testing 23andMe is looking for a buyer for the virtual care business it acquired in 2021, Business Insider has learned.

The American Relief Act, 2025, signed into law on December 21, included a short-term extension of certain telehealth waivers that went into effect

Genetic testing firm 23andMe is reportedly considering the sale of its telehealth division, Lemonaid Health, according to Business Insider. The company, which has faced financial difficulties, originally acquired the virtual care startup in 2021 for $400 million in a cash and stock deal.

“Basically, the farther the patients resided from an abortion facility, the more they were depending on the pills being mailed to them,” co-lead researcher Dr. Emily Godfrey, an OB/GYN and family doctor with the University of Washington, said in a news release.

Physicians would have to register with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for telehealth prescribing of certain controlled substances under a proposed rule issued Wednesday by the agency. "DEA's goal is to provide telehealth access for needed medications while ensuring patient safety and preventing the diversion of medications into the illicit drug market,

At the pace of our lives these days, the mobile phone has increasingly stopped being merely the quick way to keep in touch-it acts as a doorway into primary health care. If setting a doctor’s appointment,

Long-term care providers who prescribe controlled substances via telehealth may soon be subject to a tiered federal registration system.

The new notice of proposed rulemaking adheres to calls from Congress and industry for the agency to create a special telemedicine registration system. Its three-tiered approach could cost telehealth companies over $40,

Instead, people on Medicare won’t get the two years of continued coverage for telehealth appointments and five years’ for acute hospital at home programs that were in the bill Congress nearly voted into law in December 2024.

Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital is the fourth non-health system site where McLaren Health Care now provides stroke care. The network previously expanded to include War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Mackinac Straits Health System in St. Ignace, Mich., and Hellen Newberry Joy Hospital in Newberry, Mich., the release said.

Taking abortion pills at home helps reduce stigma associated with pregnancy termination, according to recent findings. “It’s intuitive to understand that people are afraid of protesters outside of abortion clinics.

Every region in the US showed increased telehealth use in October, except for the Midwest, where use dropped, according to the latest figures from FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker, released Wednesday.