Digital medicine aims to improve patients' health by giving them ways to alter behavior, tools to cope with disease or reminders to take medicine.
Sanofi is joining other big pharmaceutical companies in expanding beyond pills and injections into a new frontier of tech-based treatments that doctors can prescribe.
Working with partner Happify Health, the French drugmaker is studying a potential digital therapy for patients with depression and multiple sclerosis. That follows the launch last year of a similar type of prescription treatment from Novartis AG and Pear Therapeutics Inc. aimed at substance abuse, the first of its kind to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
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