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Menstrual fluid collected from tampons could one day provide a simple, non-invasive way to measure a biomarker of nerve damage and potentially track disease activity in neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS), new research suggests. Because neurofilament light chain, or NfL, has emerged as a promising biomarker of MS, detecting it in menstrual fluid [...]

Artera has won FDA clearance for ArteraAI Breast, its breast cancer platform for patients with early-stage HR-positive, HER2-negative invasive breast cancer. ArteraAI Breast is the first and only FDA-cleared digital pathology-based risk stratification tool for breast cancer. These FDA milestones come alongside recent CE marking for both the ArteraAI Prostate Biopsy Assay and the ArteraAI [...]

A nurse who works with breast cancer patients has spoken of her pride after joining a trial that improved breast cancer surgery after her own diagnosis. Heidi Jones, a 53-year-old staff nurse on the surgical day unit at Basildon Hospital, is a mother of two from Corringham in Essex and works with breast cancer patients [...]

A major genetics study has found dozens of new signals linked to endometriosis, offering fresh insight into the biology driving the condition. Endometriosis is a systemic disease affecting around 10 per cent of females worldwide. It happens when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside it, causing pain, inflammation and fertility problems. [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an AI tool in beta to help policymakers, experts and healthcare professionals access sexual and reproductive health information faster. Called ChatHRP, the tool was created by WHO’s Human Reproduction Programme and draws only on verified research and guidance collected by HRP and WHO. It uses natural language processing [...]

An AI atlas has mapped how reproductive organs age through menopause, with the ovaries, vagina and uterus changing on different timelines. To better understand how this process affects health, researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center developed what they describe as the first large-scale atlas of female reproductive system ageing, using artificial intelligence. The team combined [...]

Early miscarriage care after a first loss could prevent about 10,000 pregnancy losses a year in the UK, according to a new study. The study by Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research and Birmingham women’s hospital involving 406 women found a 4 per cent reduction in the risk of future miscarriage for women on the [...]

Home blood pressure checks after hypertensive pregnancy could cut the risk of heart attack, stroke and potentially early death, research suggests. Women who regularly monitored their blood pressure in the weeks after giving birth, and had doctors tailor their medication if needed, had better functioning arteries nine months later than those who received routine care. [...]

An AI tool could help spot breast cancer risk by analysing how individual breast cells behave when squeezed under stress, research suggests. Researchers at City of Hope and the University of California, Berkeley, created a microfluidic platform that assesses women’s breast cancer risk at the cellular level. The platform squeezes individual breast epithelial cells, which [...]

An experimental drug slowed triple-negative breast cancer in mice by flooding tumour cells with toxic fats. Triple-negative breast cancer lacks three common drug targets, making it one of the hardest-to-treat and most aggressive forms of the disease. The compound, known as DH20931, appears to push cancer cells past their limits by triggering a surge in [...]