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By Gloria Kolb, Co-Founder & CEO – Elitone Just a couple of months after launching Elitone in the UK, we were delighted to become an approved supplier to the NHS in March this year, to provide Trusts throughout the UK with Elitone as a new solution for pelvic health and incontinence. The NHS is the [...]

Femtech World is delighted to reveal the winners of this year’s Femtech World Awards, sponsored by Planned Parenthood. The winning entries were announced on Wednesday afternoon at a virtual event attended by the shortlisted companies and candidates. Many thanks to everyone who attended the event, and to all the entries and, of course, the sponsors [...]

Health tech company Hormona has raised a US$6.6m in its seed round that will drive the company's expansion, help launch its innovative hormone tests, and grow B2B partnerships, while also strengthening its infrastructure, marketing and sales. The funding will also support team growth to enhance customer experience, advancing Hormona’s mission to redefine hormone health globally. [...]

Scientists have found that global warming in the Middle East and North Africa is making breast, ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancer more common and more deadly.  The rise in rates is small but statistically significant, suggesting a notable increase in cancer risk and fatalities over time. “As temperatures rise, cancer mortality among women also rises [...]

Additional imaging techniques detect early stage cancers missed by mammograms in women with dense breasts, a new trial has found. In women with dense breasts (breasts with relatively low levels of fatty tissue) and a negative mammogram, supplemental imaging techniques detect early-stage cancers, with imaging techniques three times more effective than ultrasound, finds a Phase [...]

New research has revealed that the use of combined oral contraceptives (OCs) is associated with a threefold increase in the risk of cryptogenic ischaemic stroke (CIS) in young women. The findings add to a growing body of evidence linking hormonal contraception to vascular risk in women of reproductive age. Cryptogenic ischaemic stroke, which is stroke [...]

By Karishma Patel, Cofounder & Chief Brand Officer at Ema Let’s get this out of the way: Women’s health isn’t a niche. It’s the blueprint. Not just for healthcare. For technology, period. We’ve been sold the idea that designing for women is somehow “specialised,” when in reality it’s the most rigorous, emotionally complex, and systemically [...]

Women with a higher McCance Brain Care Score (BCS) – a score that measures physical, lifestyle, and social-emotional factors – have a lower risk of experiencing a stroke or other cerebrovascular event reducing blood flow to the brain, according to a new study. One in five women between the ages of 55 and 75 in [...]

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) is calling for urgent investment in perinatal mental health support - not only in services, but also the midwives that provide them. Low mood and poor mental health affect many people, but during the perinatal period women can be particularly vulnerable. Pregnancy is often portrayed as a time of great happiness, [...]

A new surgical approach aims to offer women a more natural breast shape following implant removal, without the need for fat transfer or replacement implants. The Q-Flap™ procedure, developed by board-certified plastic surgeon Dr Suzanne Quardt, uses a patient’s existing breast tissue to maintain fullness and contour after explant surgery. The technique comes in response [...]