From Meditation to Medication: Headspace Has a Prescription Strategy

The mindfulness app plans a new company with the goal of developing FDA-approved treatments for health problems

You might know Headspace as a meditation app. What if it were also a prescription medication?

The California-based company recently launched Headspace Health, a subsidiary whose executives’ goal is to apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a prescription meditation app by 2020. The company will soon launch a series of clinical trials to support an application.

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