This technology, developed by entrepreneurs Nick Ganju, Cyrus Massoumi and Oliver Kharraz, allows us to book doctor appointments online.
In the Sunday Express, meanwhile, Sebastian Brook of fan site Doctor Who Online raises the intriguing prospect of Sean Pertwee following in the Whovian foosteps of his father Jon.
Colella had started online doctor-consult firm RelayHealth, bought by McKesson in 2006 for an undisclosed sum.
The typical age is 31 for telecommuters and 22 on campus, says Tom Lenz, the director of Creighton's online doctor of pharmacy program.
But thanks to online doctor appointment scheduling service services like ZocDoc and DocASAP, your odds of meeting such urgent medical needs are rising.
"With the capsules and clinics, people do low-cost checkups and choose an online doctor for further diagnosis, then print prescription and purchase medicine from the capsule, " boasts the program's web site.
The DEA says addicts get the drugs from "doctor shopping, " online pharmacies and other Internet sources, theft from pharmacies and, yes, traditional drug dealers.
"It just doesn't fit downtown or feel like it's responsible, " said Charlotte Dixon, a third-generation Midlander who works in the billing department of a doctor's office and started an online petition last month opposing the skyscraper.
It is legal for a member of the public to be given a diagnosis and prescription online- if that prescription is signed by a doctor.
Some sites even protect their sales of prescription drugs by offering "online prescriptions, " ostensibly provided by a resident doctor, a practice that makes proving their illegality even tougher.
That argument doesn't mean spit to the New York regulators, who are concerned about the reliability of the online tests and their potential to send people rushing to their doctor demanding a cure for a fatal disease they may never get.
The Ryan Haight Bill--named after an 18-year-old who died from an overdose of Vicodin purchased online in 2001--would make it illegal to sell prescription drugs online without proof of a prescription issued to the patient in person by a doctor.
She advises consulting a good travel doctor for a list of recommended vaccines and medications (the International Society of Travel Medicine has a global directory online).
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