The companies will link Abbott’s blood glucose monitoring devices to WeightWatchers’ smartphone apps and weight loss program.

Venture capital funding for biotechs remains aplenty even as listed companies’ stock prices drop. Biogen’s Papadopoulos, Fidelity’s Kaul and Gurnet’s and ex-Sanofi Viehbacher deliberate on whether there is a valuation disconnect and if this is the next "tulip mania."

Flagship products like Dexcom’s G7 and Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3 offer currently unrivalled accuracy of blood glucose measurement. However, as truly noninvasive technologies improve, the future basis for these companies’ growth is on shaky ground.

India puts out rules for first set of over-the-counter drugs but provides no specifics on the pricing policy for such products or the wider switching pathway. Can the framework foster responsible self-medication and help reap value for patients in a market where the oversight of trade channels for sale of prescription-based drugs is lax?