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The potential of virtual reality-based therapy for serious mental disorders

Pharmaceutical Technology

In June this year, it was announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted UK-based OxfordVR a breakthrough device designation for its gameChangeVR treatment to deliver immersive cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to people suffering from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. million people in the UK and 2.7

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The future of medical cannabis development in Europe

European Pharmaceutical Review

In many European countries physicians can now prescribe medical cannabis for an array of chronic health conditions, including chronic pain, mental health disorders and neurological conditions. It is estimated that only one in 10 drugs that enter Phase I trials are subsequently licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Nevro Announces FDA Approval of HFX iQ™ Spinal Cord Stimulation System to Personalize the Treatment of Chronic Pain

Legacy MEDSearch

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Senza HFX iQ spinal cord stimulation (SCS) system. Senza HFX iQ is the first and only Artificial Intelligence-based SCS system that learns from patients. “Pain is variable from patient to patient and over time. Keith Grossman, Chairman and CEO of Nevro.

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What Is OEM Sales? With Sean Pitts

Evolve Your Success

It might need to be something that allows it to be moved, bent, put over the patient, maneuvered through a hospital or a doctor’s office, or what have you to provide either additional functionality, transport, or whatever the case may be. I still want to be somehow attached to science, whether it’s working with patients, science, or doctors.

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Why aren’t digital pills taking off?

Pharmaceutical Technology

In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broke ground by approving the first drug with an embedded biosensor to track its use. Proteus Health’s Abilify MyCite had an ingestible sensor that could track if a patient consumed the drug. You don’t want to use this to stigmatize patients or to ‘catch them lying.’