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Health App Companies Wrestle With How to Design Studies to Prove Treatments Work
For companies that have spent years developing interactive technologies to help treat disease, the tricky question inevitably comes: How far are you willing to go to prove it works? Click here for the full article.
Only 31% of US Parents Feel Their Kids Are Safe at School, Study Says
WASHINGTON (TND) — Months after the Uvalde, Texas, shooting at Robb Elementary that claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers, many parents across the country are still on edge now as a new school year kicks into gear. A new study from Qualtrix found that school shootings are the top safety concern for parents and only 31% […]
Online Counseling and Teletherapy: Benefits, Challenges, and Uses
Online counseling, also called teletherapy or virtual therapy, is a type of formal psychotherapy that offers services using electronic technology or the telephone. Click here for the full article.
Digital-Therapeutics Offer a New Model for Medicine, but Face Obstacles
Startups have raised billions of dollars in venture capital to develop software-based digital therapeutics for a range of diseases. Now, many are wrestling with the challenge of bringing these treatments to patients. Several are experimenting with new business strategies to clear hurdles to commercial success. Click here for the full article.
The FDA eased rules for mental health apps during the pandemic. Now companies are bracing for it to tighten the reins
In April 2020, as the horrors of the pandemic were beginning to unspool, the Food and Drug Administration announced an emergency policy giving companies wide berth to release apps to address a mental health crisis that experts feared would only get worse under lockdown. The policy was intended to aid people in need while relieving […]
