Telehealth booms as demand for GLP-1s surges and questions mount about safety, oversight

MedicalXpress | يون 03, 2026

Within 24 hours of injecting the first dose of a weight loss medication she received following a visit with a telehealth doctor, Karleigh McClain was admitted to the hospital, she said. The 31-year-old compliance consultant from Hendersonville, Tennessee, said she couldn't stop vomiting.