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