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Minute Insight: Pear Gets FDA’s STeP Designation For Chronic Pain Therapeutic

 
• By Reed Miller

Pear Therapeutics is developing the Pear-010 digital therapeutic for virtual reality-delivered pain reduction in adults with acute postoperative and postprocedural pain. Its inclusion in FDA’s Safer Technologies Program (STeP) program suggests the FDA is committed to continuing that program for products that treat non-life-threatening or reversible conditions.

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• Source: Informa/Alamy

Pear Therapeutics plans to add postoperative and postprocedure pain to the growing list of conditions it is addressing through its PearCreate prescription digital therapeutics (PDT) development platform.

The Boston-based company is using PearCreate to develop Pear-010, a PDT that will provide virtual-reality pain-reduction therapy for adults who have undergone a surgery or other invasive procedure. Pear acquired...

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