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Maternal care femtech firm CARA Health has added a senior figure from global smart ring deeloped ŌURA to its team.  Kristina Masalin has joined CARA’s strategic advisory tea, to help progress its work in improving access to maternity support via a mobile app. In Estonia, every second pregnant woman already relies on CARÁ Health’s app, [...]

A women’s health intervention that harnesses software, AI and wearables to address pelvic pain, as well as depression, has shown promising results. Hinge Health’s digital ‘Women’s Pelvic Health Programme’ has reported a 44 per cent reduction in pelvic pain after four weeks of use – and 53 per cent after 12 weeks. The probability of [...]

Using AI in mammography screening can significantly increase cancer detection rates, according to a landmark clinical trial involving more than 105,000 women. The Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence (MASAI) trial, in Sweden, found that using AI in increased cancer detection by 29 per cent and resulted in a 44 per cent reduction in the screen-reading [...]

A pharma firm pioneering a new approach to endometriosis treatment has reported positive findings from its latest trial. Serac Healthcare has developed a molecular imaging agent which supports the visualisation and diagnosis of superficial peritoneal endometriosis (SPE); the most common type of endometriosis, which affects 80 per cent of people with the condition. The latest [...]

Health and femtech entrepreneurs are well represented in this year’s funded awards for female founders from the UK’s innovation agency. Innovate UK, the government-backed body that supports new products and services, has announced its Women in Innovation Awards. Among the 50 winners that each receive a £75k grant, support and coaching, are a number of [...]

Pharma giant Novartis and Danish digital health firm Dawn Health have teamed up to develop a new app to support breast cancer patients. Cora BC provides patients with tools to track their health, “offering clarity and insight into their experiences”, its creators say. “By completing regular health check-ins and visualising progress through intuitive graphs, users [...]

Femtech World explores the latest developments in fem tech investments. Innovation in Women’s Cancer Accelerator Fund The Innovation in Women's Cancer Accelerator Fund - a collaborative scheme between Life Sciences Hub Wales and the Academy of Medical Sciences - has been launched to develop innovative solutions that enhance outcomes and experiences for women affected by [...]

Femtech startups may be able to access a new investment scheme from Visa, which aims to close the funding gap experienced by female founders. Visa Foundaton has launched the CatalyseHer Programme in the UK and is aiming to provide 500 women entrepreneurs with training and fundraising support to grow their businesses and make them more [...]

A new European hackathon event aimed at closing the gender health gap and advancing women’s health will be launched later this year. HackHERHealth urges entrepreneurs, students, researchers, tech enthusiasts and life science experts to take part in its inaugural event in Gothenburg, Sweden, in April. The event will encourage innovators to harness advanced, generative AI [...]

The search for more effective treatments for deadly metaplastic breast cancer has uncovered two drugs with the potential to interrupt disease progression. US researchers examined the biology of metaplastic breast cancer, comparing it to non-metaplastic triple negative breast cancer. They discovered metaplastic breast cancers typically exhibit two unique signaling pathways in their cell interaction. Researchers [...]