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Precision health company DEPH Labs has appointed Lisa Loud as chief executive, naming data privacy and consumer access as priorities for its next phase of growth. Loud brings decades of experience across technology, financial services, blockchain and digital privacy, with senior roles at Apple, PayPal, BitMEX, ShapeShift and Secret Network. Her appointment follows the launch [...]

The invisible cognitive burden women carry & what it's costing them at work By Katrina Zalcmane and Zahra Bhatti, co-founders of Véa. Two people can share household responsibilities while one still carries most of the mental load. One person does the shopping. The other notices what is missing, plans the meals, keeps track of what [...]

Posted in partnership with London Pregnancy Clinic The most detailed look most parents in England get at their developing baby arrives around the midpoint of pregnancy. The NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme offers a screening scan between 18 and 20 weeks, and that scan screens for eleven physical conditions. It is a well-run, well-audited programme, [...]

Posted in partnership with Jeen Health NHS England has launched a National Inherited Cancer Predisposition Register, a national record of people carrying gene variants that raise their cancer risk. It covers around 120 cancer susceptibility genes. People on it are tracked, invited for screening and offered faster access to personalised treatment and trials, and those [...]

By Women As One Women receive advice. Men receive advocacy. If we want to close the gender gap, it’s time to be intentional about sponsorship. Building a career in cardiology takes more than hard work; it requires access, visibility, and support. One of the first pieces of career advice physicians receive is to find a [...]

September is Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month, an important opportunity to raise awareness of symptoms, screening and early detection. It should also prompt a broader question: Is innovation in women’s health keeping pace with a changing cancer landscape? A recent global analysis of breast, cervical, uterine and ovarian cancers estimated 3.7 million new cases and 1.3 [...]

By Women As One Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death across European Society of Cardiology (ESC) member countries. Yet the latest 2025 ESC Atlas project report tells a story of progress. Over the past three decades, cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality rates have declined, reflecting advances in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and healthcare delivery. [...]

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised after a human error caused 11 years of maternity data to be overwritten. The incident happened during routine technical work on 18 August, when computer instructions intended to create a copy of a radiotherapy database were mistakenly applied to the maternity database. Most of the affected information has [...]

 Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland has launched a three-year Women’s Health Plan setting out actions to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment and support for women in Scotland. The 2026 to 2029 plan includes commitments on health information, prevention and early detection, professional training, peer support, post-diagnosis care, policy and research. It comes amid disparities affecting women [...]

Women in Europe’s health and care sector face a 19 per cent hourly gender pay gap, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report. Women account for 77 per cent of the sector’s workforce, compared with 45 per cent across all other sectors combined, but make up only 55 per cent of its top [...]