DIGITAL HEALTH
Amazon's Alexa wants to remind you to take your meds. Amazon is expanding Alexa's health care footprint into medication management, the company said in a blog post. The service will be available to supermarket chain Giant Eagle Pharmacy's customers in a collaboration with Omnicell. It's a pilot project, but users who sign up for it can say something like, "Alexa, manage my medication" and receive reminders on taking their pills.
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INDICATIONS
Vertex plots major gene and cell therapy expansion. Vertex Pharmaceuticals is expanding (literally, physically) its already-formidable presence in Boston with new property meant to support its cell and gene therapy R&D ambitions, according to FiercePharma. Vertex recently crossed over from its bread-and-butter cystic fibrosis business into the gene therapy field for other rare disorders (and that's the kind of complicated drug development that requires a whole lot of space). (FiercePharma)
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THE BIG PICTURE
The CBD rage could hit a public health wall. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent warning letters to 15 companies accused of illegally selling CBD products—and a broader warning to consumers that these largely unproven products could cause legitimate harm, including liver damage. "We remain concerned that some people wrongly think that the myriad of CBD products on the market, many of which are illegal, have been evaluated by the FDA and determined to be safe, or that trying CBD ‘can’t hurt,’" said FDA principal deputy commissioner Amy Abernethy in a statement. (MarketWatch )
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