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Information technology

Your smartphone as medicine: Digital therapy is here to stay | Stat News

Doctors may soon prescribe mobile apps like Pear's substance abuse-platform Reset, which is the first FDA-approved prescription digital therapy.

Startup seeking to help prevent pregnancy complications will take part in gestational diabetes pilot | Medcity News

Babyscripts' remote-monitoring tools allow physicians to monitor high-risk pregnancies. The company will start a pilot study with North Carolina-based Cone Health to apply those tools to gestational diabetes.

Pharmaceuticals

FDA proposal would make clear there's no gluten in your pills | Bloomberg

The FDA's new draft guidance would encourage drugmakers to include gluten information on medications. No drugs marketed in the U.S. today have gluten in amounts greater than that in a gluten-free food.

Why a drug for aging would challenge Washington | Politico

Aging is not considered a disease by the FDA. An anti-aging drug could medicalize symptoms of normal aging.

Safety, quality and clinical practice

Lawyers clash over impact of Trump's rules on birth control | Associated Press

A California court is hearing arguments whether Trump's new contraceptive rules, which would allow employers to refuse to cover contraceptives if they have religious or moral objections, would limit how many women have access to free birth control. "When the cost of contraception increases, women are more likely to use less effective methods of contraception or none at all," said a lawyer for the California attorney general's office, while the deputy assistant attorney general said women wouldn't lose coverage.

In other news

How errors affect credibility of online reviews | Science Daily

Consumers decide whether to trust online reviews in part based on spelling errors and typos. But they care more about the latter, which they see as "errors of carelessness" and which cause them to consider the reviewers less credible.