STAT+: Takeda, Janssen join wearable maker to measure scratching, and other health tech news
In the latest edition of Health Tech newsletter: Takeda, Janssen team up with ActiGraph; FDA warning on Philips CPAP machine; Amazon and Microsoft tout new customers for generative AI tech.
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Takeda and Janssen are teaming up with wearable device maker ActiGraph to validate a digital measure that quantifies the disruptive nighttime scratching that impacts people with skin conditions like psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. The hope is that a measure of so-called nocturnal scratch might one day be used as an endpoint in clinical trials for new drugs.
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