Tech & devices

Midlands-founded health-tech scale-up Rem3dy Health has landed £1.4m in new funding. The announcement was made at Birmingham Tech Week, as part of their Scale-Up Summit. During the event, Founder and CEO Melissa Snover confirmed that the Amsterdam-based Borski Fund, which specialises in backing high-growth, women-led ventures, has invested £900,000 in Rem3dy Health, alongside a further [...]

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with CardMedic across the organisation, enabling its 6,300-strong workforce to communicate more clearly and confidently with patients who face language or communication barriers. CardMedic is a digital healthcare communication platform that allows staff and patients to communicate safely and effectively irrespective of language barriers, cognitive impairment or literacy. [...]

Dutch femtech startup Yon E Health has raised €250k in pre-seed funding to develop a smart vaginal health sensor that measures pH and temperature. The device will monitor key indicators linked to fertility, infection risk and reproductive wellbeing, tackling what the company says are long-standing gaps in women’s healthcare. Founded by Roswitha Verwer in 2022, [...]

Researchers have reported the first successful pregnancy using an AI-guided sperm recovery method in infertile men with azoospermia, a condition where ejaculate contains little or no sperm. The case involved a man who had spent nearly 20 years trying to start a family, undergoing multiple IVF cycles, manual sperm searches and two surgical procedures. Male [...]

AI technology can identify 42 per cent of breast cancers that develop between routine mammograms by flagging women at highest risk, researchers have found. The study analysed 134,217 screening mammograms using a deep learning model known as Mirai, which estimates breast cancer risk from imaging data, tumour features and breast density. Researchers from the University [...]

LiviWell has raised US$3.3m seed funding to advance FDA clearance and ready the launch of Livi, a post-intercourse device for vaginal microbiome balance. Livi is a medical-grade polyurethane foam device inserted with an applicator immediately after intercourse. It absorbs semen and other fluids in under 60 seconds, helping to maintain vaginal pH and support the [...]

Femtech World explores the latest business developments in the world of women’s health. NHS platform Evaro partners with period tracking app Clue in UK-first integration Evaro, the NHS-licensed embedded healthcare platform, has announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with the period tracking app Clue. The partnership will provide seamless access to NHS-funded contraception directly through Clue's app. [...]

By Martin Piria, senior machine learning engineer at Ema Search has changed. For years, Women's Health companies have invested in SEO, optimising their websites so Google would surface their content. But now, as consumers increasingly ask health questions directly to AI like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Ema, or Claude, a new frontier is emerging for brands that [...]

Propel Healthtech West Yorkshire is calling on innovators with healthtech solutions to apply for its accelerator programme. The programme is free for successful applicants and provides enhanced business support, regulatory guidance, NHS networking and scaled growth advice. The accelerator has recently been allocated £4.5m in funding from the West Yorkshire Mayor’s investment Zone. The funding [...]

Women’s healthcare company Tia, backed by Melinda French Gates, has cut 72 jobs, reducing its workforce by 23 per cent across corporate and clinical divisions. Chief executive Felicity Yost told staff on Monday that the company would downsize as part of a plan to accelerate its path to profitability, according to Business Insider. The cuts [...]