Kids, Time To Play Your Medicine: Akili Prepares Launch Of EndeavorRx Video Game For ADHD

 
• By Marion Webb

After being first to receive FDA clearance for a prescription-only software to treat ADHD and raising total funding of $230m, Akili plans a US launch in 2022 while targeting other indications.

Video gaming
• Source: Alamy

After nearly a decade building a prescription-based video game platform to help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Akili Interactive Labs’s CEO Eddie Martucci said the company is making plans to market its software to US-based health care providers and patients in the new year.

EndeavorRx became the first prescription-only game-based device to be cleared for marketing by the US FDA under the de novo...

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