Takeda, Janssen join wearable maker to measure scratching, and other health tech news

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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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