Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Credit: Nephron via Wikimedia Commons

Two popular health-care trends, telemedicine and promising new weight-loss drugs, continue to converge. The Mayo Clinic on Tuesday announced a new telehealth service that will offer direct access to GLP-1 weight-loss medications, shortly after Eli Lilly similarly launched LillyDirect.

The Mayo Clinic Diet Medical Weight Loss Rx program, which is available in beta form to qualifying members, also will provide lab testing to confirm medication suitability, clinical monitoring, insurance support, meal plan options, and coaching and education tools.

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