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Women should not feel pressured into an “ideal birth”, health secretary Yvette Cooper has said as she promised major maternity reform. Cooper has returned to the Department of Health and Social Care 27 years after serving as public health minister under Tony Blair. She said maternity and child health would be a major focus of [...]

A simple DNA test using circulating tumour DNA could forecast how advanced breast cancer responds to treatment, enabling earlier switches to options more likely to work, researchers say. The test analyses circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) (tiny fragments of cancer DNA in the blood) to indicate whether a patient is likely to benefit from a specific [...]

As 2025 comes to a close, our editor reflects on some of the key stories, trends and milestones in femtech over the last 12 months. This year, femtech didn’t just advance in terms of apps and wearables; it became an important part of the wider discussion around addressing gaps and inequalities in public health systems, [...]

As founding director of Femtech Israel (IL), Shelly Bloch is working to strengthen the femtech ecosystem in Israel and beyond. Here she tells Femtech World about the trends, challenges and opportunities she sees in women’s health innovation, and her hopes for the future. “My personal passion is women,” Shelly Bloch tells Femtech World on the [...]