Insight

While the debate around abortion rights in the US still rages, the topic seems to be forgotten in Japan where women will need their partner’s consent to get the abortion pill. Back in May, a Japanese senior health ministry official told parliament that the country was open to approving a British abortion pill. But he [...]

FemTech World assesses the outlook for sextech and the barriers to its progress. Sextech is designed to enhance and innovate human sexuality and the human sexual experience. The sextech industry was already worth US$30bn in 2021. However, analysts expect it to grow further to US$52.7bn by 2026. There is still not a clear definition of [...]

It’s the buzz phrase on everyone’s lips: menstrual leave. 

Disruption in health services has meant that face-to-face nursing courses had to move online

Although opportunities in women’s health accelerate, investors remain cautious

Michele McGuire, vice president of managed services delivery at NTT, official IT partner of Tour de France tells Femtech World about technology's power to close cycling's gender gap.  Contributing factors to the gender-based financial divide in sports include disproportionate sponsorship deals, unequal representation in sports governance and gaps in media coverage of women's competition. In the world [...]

This year World Breastfeeding week’s theme is ‘Step us for breastfeeding: educate and support’. The World Breastfeeding week (WABA) 2022, which takes place from the 1st of August until the 7th, focuses on strengthening the capacity of actors that have to protect, promote and support breastfeeding across different levels of society. WABA’s aims to inform [...]

A growing number of women are choosing to wear prosthetics rather than undergoing an additional surgery to reconstruct their breasts after a mastectomy.

A month after the Supreme Court officially overturned Roe, women are worried about how safe their data is and whether it could be shared with third parties. The US House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent letters to five personal health companies and five data brokers requesting information on the collection and sale of personal [...]

Over 75 per cent of women in India experience postpartum anxiety while 25 per cent struggle with postpartum depression