Digital Therapeutics

FDA Approves Prescription Digital Therapeutic for Chronic Insomnia

by Samantha McGrail

Pear Therapeutics recently announced that FDA granted authorization for Somryst, the first prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) to treat adult patients with chronic insomnia. Somryst is a nine-week...

$125M Initiative to Boost Drug Discovery for COVID-19 Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard recently launched an initiative to boost drug discovery and biologics to treat patients with COVID-19. For more coronavirus updates,...

Senate Confirms Hahn as FDA Commissioner in Bipartisan Vote

by Sara Heath

The US Senate has voted to confirm Stephen Hahn, MD, the former chief medical executive for MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas, as the new commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In a...