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DTx for women’s mental health – Woebot and postpartum depression

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Digital therapeutics company Woebot Health has announced enrolment of the first patient in a pivotal clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of WB001, an investigational therapeutic for postpartum depression (PPD), granted Breakthrough Device designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2021.

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For neurological disease, solving measurement is the first and biggest hurdle to re-imagining treatment

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Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s affect millions of people worldwide, and their prevalence is only increasing, according to the World Health Organization. Utilising new digital technology, it turns out there are a number of ways to introduce objective measurement into the world of neurodegenerative diseases.

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Nine for 2021: The COVID-19 legacy

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One bright spot in an otherwise dreadful year: the pharmaceutical industry has discovered it can do things it never dreamed possible. Anyone who proposed that a novel, deadly virus would spread, with a vaccine developed demonstrating 95% efficacy, and approved for patients in less than a year would have been scoffed at.

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