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Partum Health, a Chicago-based maternal health start-up that provides interdisciplinary pregnancy and postpartum care, is expanding to Dallas. Partum, a start-up founded in Chicago in 2021, expanded to Houston in November 2023 after raising US$3.1m in seed funding. The company, which offers both virtually and in-home services, aims to support families through proactive care from pre-conception through early parenthood. In the [...]

The medtech start-up Cairn Surgical has secured US$4.5m in funding to improve breast cancer surgery. The round, led by Morningside Ventures, is hoped to help the company complete a US pivotal trial of its breast cancer locator (BCL™) system and implement a limited commercial launch of the technology in select European markets. Current breast conserving [...]

Endometriosis affects more than 190 million women and girls globally

A researcher from the University of Oxford has received new funding to study the role of neutrophils in ovarian cancer. Neutrophils are important cells in the immune system, produced in very large numbers in the bone marrow. When in circulation they patrol blood vessels and tissues seeking out sources of disease or damage to regulate [...]

The US cancer diagnostics start-up PreciseDx has secured US$20.7m in series B funding to "advance" AI-based cancer risk assessments. The round, which brings the company's total funding to date to US$31.5m, was led by Eventide Asset Management, with participation from Labcorp, Quest Diagnostics and GenHenn Capital Venture, along with existing investors. Precise Dx, a spin-out [...]

The US women's health company Together Women’s Health has teamed up with a leading care delivery platform to help women on their menopause journey. Together Women’s Health has announced a strategic partnership with the digital menopause care delivery platform true. Women’s Health, which offers a personalised, membership-based concierge medicine model, focusing on midlife, menopause, sexual health [...]

A group of US researchers have conducted a PubMed search to identify promising approaches for early diagnosis of endometriosis. Endometriosis is a common chronic disease that affects more than 11 per cent of women of reproductive age in the United States and 190 million women worldwide. Early diagnosis remains a major clinical and public health [...]

A groundbreaking study has demonstrated the potential of AI in optimising the ovarian stimulation process for IVF treatment. The study, led by Dr Chelsea Canon, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist for RMA of New York, was a multi-center, prospective analysis of AI's impact on IVF outcomes. The Alife software, known as Stim Assist, provides physicians with [...]

The reproductive health app Clue has announced a partnership with Headspace to help women "take control" of their mental health. The Clue and Headspace partnership aims to offer targeted support for users at various cycle stages and shed light on the important but under-researched connection between menstrual and mental health. Anxiety and depression are the top [...]

The UK-based charity Wellbeing of Women has launched free virtual reality workshops to tackle menopause inequality in small and medium-sized businesses.    Hosted in Milton Keynes, a city known for its business community, Menopause Xplored aims to harness virtual reality and expert advice to teach participants about how menopause can impact women in the workplace, [...]