Tech & devices

Weekly app monitoring can reduce fatigue and improve daily life for women with metastatic breast cancer, according to a study. The approach involves regularly asking patients about their wellbeing through an app and responding quickly when problems are identified. Germany’s Federal Joint Committee, known as the G-BA, has recommended that the treatment model be incorporated [...]

Cambridge health tech company TidalSense has secured £14.2m in funding led by Cross-Border Impact Ventures to expand its AI-powered lung disease test across the NHS and into Europe and the US. The investment, which also includes returning backers BGF, Airstream Capital and Foresight Group, will fund the rollout of a handheld diagnostic device that can [...]

Stardust shared sensitive period tracking data with third-party analytics firms, according to new privacy research from Mozilla. The findings expose a privacy divide in femtech, where users often trust apps with highly sensitive reproductive health information. The research was carried out by Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included team, which tested several period tracking apps. [...]

A new reporting tool built specifically for obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine has launched, aimed at teams managing increasingly complex pregnancies with limited time and resources. Trice Imaging has released Trice Workspace Reporting, which connects imaging, reporting and longitudinal patient data in a single workflow to support faster clinical decision making. Birth rates are falling worldwide, [...]

BACKEER and Netalis Medical have won the Women's Health × EmbryoNet-AI Startup Competition, an international initiative designed to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence solutions in women's health. The two winners will receive technical support worth up to €100,000, along with access to investors, to help them develop and validate their minimum viable products. In [...]

Xella Health has launched what it calls the first AI precision health platform built for the XX chromosome. The company says it aims to address a lack of diagnostic precision and clinical research focused on female biology. Women make up half of the population and account for 80 per cent of consumer healthcare decisions, but [...]

Women’s health startup Ovum has raised US$4m in seed funding to develop its AI health journal and expand research using women’s health data. The round valued the Melbourne startup at US$18m. Ovum plans to use the funding to develop its artificial intelligence technology and longitudinal datasets, which track health information over time to reveal changes [...]

WID-easy, the only non-invasive triage test for endometrial cancer in routine use in a European public health system, has been cited in Germany's highest-tier clinical guidance; a marker that non-invasive detection is reaching clinical maturity. The vaginal-swab test designed to spare women unnecessary invasive procedures has been referenced in the updated German S3 Guideline on [...]

AI may help speed breast cancer diagnosis for high-risk women after abnormal mammograms, a study suggests. Women with abnormal mammograms often wait weeks to learn whether they have breast cancer. Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley said an AI-guided workflow could help reduce that wait by quickly identifying those most likely to have [...]

Wearable technology could revolutionise how women understand and manage their menstrual and hormonal health, according to a major new review that assessed dozens of studies involving data from millions of participants. The review, which examined 40 studies with cohorts ranging from small pilot groups to nearly 19 million participants, found that devices such as the [...]