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Nearly six in ten young women get health and wellness advice from influencers, new research shows. Women aged 18 to 29 were more likely than young men to use online influencers for health information. The topics included beauty, alternative medicine, mental health, weight loss and fitness. The Pew Research study found that 57 [...]

Congress is being urged to invest US$20bn over 10 years to close the women’s health gap. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society for Women’s Health Research and the Women First Research Coalition have unveiled the National Strategy to Close the Women’s Health Gap. The framework calls for a coordinated national effort to [...]

Stardust shared sensitive period tracking data with third-party analytics firms, according to new privacy research from Mozilla. The findings expose a privacy divide in femtech, where users often trust apps with highly sensitive reproductive health information. The research was carried out by Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included team, which tested several period tracking apps. [...]

Juno Bio has secured US$3.8m to expand its diagnostics platform for vaginal health and reproductive care. The funding round was led by Ada Ventures, with participation from Artesian, Entrepreneur First and Illumina Accelerator. The women’s health startup said the seed funding will support the launch of its first CLIA-certified sequencing laboratory in Oakland, California, and [...]

Black women in the UK want clearer, more accessible breast cancer screening information, research has found. The study looked at why Black African and Black Caribbean women are less likely than white women to attend breast screening. Researchers at the University of Surrey held focus groups and interviews with 47 Black African and Black Caribbean [...]

Women’s pain should not simply be endured, Wales’s first women’s health minister has said. Delyth Jewell said she was determined to tackle the normalisation of pain in women’s healthcare and ensure women’s voices are listened to. Speaking during a Women’s Health Summit at the Temple of Peace on Thursday, July 16, she said: “For too [...]

Hosted by Amanda Ducach, CEO, and Morgan Rose, chief science officer, EmaEQ Healthcare companies have spent the last two years hearing the same advice: get AI into your product. Few have been told what that actually takes. Most default to the fastest option. Plug in a general-purpose model, wrap it in a chat window, and [...]

Women's health companies raised a record $1.55 billion in disclosed equity in 2025, up 41 per cent year on year, according to W Group's first Global Women's Health Investment Report, The Road to the Era of Scale. The report tracks over 500 funding stories and 164 equity rounds across 15 categories and 30+ countries. Eighty-five [...]

Onto Health has acquired Levy Health, a fertility software company providing precision diagnostics and patient intake for reproductive medicine. The acquisition, fuelled by Onto Health’s US$20m Series A fundraise in April, supports its plan to build scalable, tech-enabled infrastructure for reproductive medicine. Onto founder Roohi Jeelani, MD, called it the first of several moves in [...]

A new menopause drug has been approved for NHS use in Scotland, offering a non-hormonal option for women who cannot take HRT. The Scottish Medicines Consortium has recommended that women can now be prescribed fezolinetant, also known as Veoza, for symptoms such as hot flushes and night sweats. Some women cannot take HRT, [...]