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Feminade, a digital startup helping women optimise their hormone health, has announced its acquisition by Superpower, the world’s first AI concierge health platform. Femtech World finds out what’s next for its female founder. Since its launch in 2020, Feminade claims to have helped hundreds of women, whose needs were not being met by conventional medicine, [...]

Women's digital health company Twentyeight Health has secures US$10m funding to expand its services in order to help lower barriers to sexual and reproductive care in the US. Twentyeight Health provides telemedicine consultations, at-home deliveries, and ongoing access to providers for services like birth control and herpes treatments, particularly in underserved communities. "45 per cent [...]

Researchers have developed a non-invasive method to improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy while reducing its harmful side effects using localised magnetic fields. By applying brief, localised pulses of magnetic fields, researchers have demonstrated a significant increase in the uptake of doxorubicin (DOX), a widely used chemotherapy drug, into breast cancer cells, with minimal impact on [...]

A wellness app has launched new features that enable women to use their test data to help track reproductive hormones, manage their fertility windows, understand their cycles and make informed reproductive choices. The features provide rapid results and digitised data to check hormone, hydration, and inflammation levels using at-home urine tests. Results are displayed via [...]

For many born during the UK’s most common birth dates, their arrival often carries a festive backstory. Christmas holidays, time off work, and the boost to sperm quality in winter—December becomes a season of new beginnings. Fast forward nine months, and January turns into a time of fresh starts, not just for the year ahead [...]

A new set of guidelines has been developed to assist with the diagnosis and expert management of serious blood cancers in pregnancy, with an Australian working group having published a position statement based on current evidence and expert consensus. About 12.5 pregnancies per 100,000 are affected by blood cancers such as acute leukaemia and aggressive [...]

Stable tumour organoids have been directly taken from blood samples of breast cancer patients; in a world first that could speed the development of new treatments Tumour cells circulating in the blood are the “germ cells” of breast cancer metastases - cancer cells that detach from its original tumour and spread around the body. Until [...]

Women living in rural areas may experience a greater burden of psychological and somatic menopause symptoms, according to a new study. The study compared the experiences of menopause symptoms, resources and treatments in woman across rural, suburban and urban areas. The findings show that women that live in rural areas going through late menopause had [...]

AI-based models can outperform human experts at identifying ovarian cancer in ultrasound images, an international study has shown. Researchers have developed and validated neural network models that are able to differentiate between benign and malignant ovarian lesions. The team has trained and tested the AI on over 17,000 ultrasound images from 3,652 patients across 20 [...]

A new US collaboration will see the launch of  a mobile mammography unit that aims to address gaps in access to care. Part of a larger mobile clinic, a converted RV equipped with a mammography unit aims to encourage improved uptake of regular screenings for people who would normally have to travel for their screenings. [...]