Insight

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women worldwide, so why do their symptoms go overlooked and under-treated for so long? During American Heart Month, Femtech World spoke to Harvard-trained cardiologist and CEO of Systole Health, Dr Simin Lee. Nausea, dizziness, jaw and back pain, extreme fatigue— all symptoms that would sound familiar [...]

...and the technology we make and sell shouldn’t assume so. By Russell Foltz-Smith, Computational thinker, entrepreneur, and algorithmic advisor to Ema - AI for Women My friends and colleagues at Ema asked me, a tech bro, to write an essay on AI for FemTech media. Whether this is a good idea or not, I don’t [...]

A new UK research centre dedicated to women’s health has received a £3m funding boost. The Women's Health Research Wales centre for excellence has received £3m investment from Health and Care Research Wales, supported by the Welsh Government. The centre, which opens in April, play a role in Women’s Health Plan for Wales. Published in [...]

Maternal care femtech firm CARA Health has added a senior figure from global smart ring deeloped ŌURA to its team.  Kristina Masalin has joined CARA’s strategic advisory tea, to help progress its work in improving access to maternity support via a mobile app. In Estonia, every second pregnant woman already relies on CARÁ Health’s app, [...]

A women’s health intervention that harnesses software, AI and wearables to address pelvic pain, as well as depression, has shown promising results. Hinge Health’s digital ‘Women’s Pelvic Health Programme’ has reported a 44 per cent reduction in pelvic pain after four weeks of use – and 53 per cent after 12 weeks. The probability of [...]

Health and femtech entrepreneurs are well represented in this year’s funded awards for female founders from the UK’s innovation agency. Innovate UK, the government-backed body that supports new products and services, has announced its Women in Innovation Awards. Among the 50 winners that each receive a £75k grant, support and coaching, are a number of [...]

Femtech startups may be able to access a new investment scheme from Visa, which aims to close the funding gap experienced by female founders. Visa Foundaton has launched the CatalyseHer Programme in the UK and is aiming to provide 500 women entrepreneurs with training and fundraising support to grow their businesses and make them more [...]

A new European hackathon event aimed at closing the gender health gap and advancing women’s health will be launched later this year. HackHERHealth urges entrepreneurs, students, researchers, tech enthusiasts and life science experts to take part in its inaugural event in Gothenburg, Sweden, in April. The event will encourage innovators to harness advanced, generative AI [...]

Fem Tech World explores the latest research developments impacting on women’s health. AI system detects heart defects on foetal ultrasound exams A new study has evaluated whether an artificial intelligence (AI) system can improve the detection of congenital heart defects on foetal ultrasound exams among both general OBGYNs and maternal foetal medicine specialists. The team [...]

Nearly three years of full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine has exacerbated existing health disparities, say the co-founders of FemTech UA, taking a toll on millions of women and girls. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Julia Ivanytska, co-founder of Women’s Health & FemTech Ukraine (FemTech UA), and her family were among those who chose [...]