Diagnosis

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. [...]

Nearly half of women under 40 with advanced breast cancer have children under 18, with many facing job disruption and financial strain, new research has found. A global survey has revealed the challenges faced by young women with advanced breast cancer, with 64 per cent reporting employment disruption after diagnosis and 40 per cent incurring [...]

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, [...]

An NHS-approved drug could be repurposed to prevent breast cancer in pre-menopausal women with a strong family history of the disease, researchers have found. Ulipristal acetate, already prescribed on the NHS for other conditions, blocks progesterone – a hormone that can drive breast cancer development – and may help lower risk in women before the [...]

Babies born to black mothers in England and Wales are 81 per cent more likely to die in neonatal units than those born to white mothers, new data has revealed. An analysis of more than 700,000 babies admitted to NHS neonatal units between 2012 and 2022 also found that those from the most deprived areas [...]

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 [...]

By Justyna Strzeszynska, founder of menstrual health platform Joii The Government’s announcement that it will renew the Women’s Health Strategy is, on the surface, good news. The original strategy in 2022 was historic - the first time women’s health had been acknowledged as something that required its own plan. It raised awareness, started [...]

Women must receive clearer warnings about the potentially fatal risks of home birth and should only be supported by experienced midwives, experts have said. The calls follow a coroner’s ruling in Rochdale, England, that Jennifer Cahill, 34, and her baby, Agnes Lily, died after a home birth in June 2024 due to “a gross failure [...]

Some hormonal contraceptives carry a slightly higher breast cancer risk than others, with desogestrel linked to greater increases than alternative products. A study of more than two million Swedish women and teenage girls found that the risks vary depending on the type of hormone used in contraceptive methods. Researchers tracked women aged 13 to 49 [...]

High street clinics offering pregnancy scans could be putting unborn babies and their mothers in danger through a lack of properly trained staff, UK experts warn. Hospital specialists report cases of missed health problems, misdiagnosed conditions and instances where women were wrongly told their babies had died or were malformed. The Society of Radiographers (SoR) [...]