Menopause

One of New Zealand’s biggest period care brands has been acquired by Somedays, the Canadian natural period pain relief firm. AWWA Periodcare, which specialises in reusable, absorbent period underwear, was co-founded in 2018 by Michele Wilson and Kylie Matthews. It successfully delivered its mission to create a sustainable alternative to single-use menstrual products. Somedays was [...]

AI Super Agents: What They Are and Their Potential Global Health Impact Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) represents a significant advancement in AI, with the potential to create systems that can learn, reason, and solve problems across various fields — potentially in ways that exceed human capabilities. Opinions differ on the timeline for AGI development. Sam [...]

Europe's first private, women's health tissue bank has been launched by Liverpool-based laboratory and medical education provider BioGrad, backed by a £25m investment. The new tissue bank will work to investigate treatments and cures for women's health conditions such as menopause, endometriosis, cancers, and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), according to reports. The bank aims to [...]

Innovative Birmingham-based nutrition firm Rem3dy Health has been recognised in the first-ever “Sunday Times 100 Tech: Britain's fastest-growing private technology companies” list. The new rankings were compiled by the newspaper’s business reporters and private company data source, Beauhurst. They include firms that either sell their own proprietary technology or have developed technology that is vital [...]

The Femtech World Awards 2025, delivered in partnership with headline sponsor Planned Parenthood, celebrates the brightest lights in women's health innovation. We will be celebrating some of the best examples of leadership, innovation and impact in key areas that affect women's health and wellbeing. New technology and ways of working are helping to redefine what [...]

Machine learning models can more quickly and affordably identify women with severe subjective cognitive decline during the menopause transition, effectively opening the door to better management of cognitive health, a new study suggests. Subjective cognitive decline refers to a person’s perceived decline in memory or other cognitive functions. Cognitive decline, one of the more common symptoms [...]

The second annual Femtech World Awards will celebrate the very best of women's health innovation, recognising individuals and organisations helping to transform outcomes around the world. The Femtech Company of the Year award recognises an outstanding organisation that has demonstrated exceptional innovation, impact and leadership in the female health technology sector. This award honours a [...]

Leveraging new user insights, femble has announced a strategic pivot aimed at enhancing the doctor-patient relationship. Following the successful launch of its B2C app addressing cycle-related health issues—which amassed a community of over 40,000 women and collaborated with dozens of physicians—femble’s founders identified a significant opportunity to expand into the B2B sector. Founded in 2021 [...]

Agentic AI platform Ema has raised US$3m to accelerate AI innovation in women's health. Ema has been trained on a proprietary dataset of 10 million interactions between women and physicians discussing health and wellness together. Made by women for women's health, the platform has been clinically-vetted to deliver personalised care and help women make informed [...]

The Femtech World Awards 2025, delivered in partnership with headline sponsor Planned Parenthood, celebrates the brightest lights in women's health innovation. We will be celebrating some of the best examples of leadership, innovation and impact in key areas that affect women's health and wellbeing. The Menopause Innovation of the Year award celebrates a pioneering advancement [...]