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By Afua Basoah, Head of Health Strategy for RAPP UK

Women’s health company Hertility is announcing the acquisition of Netherlands-based fertility and hormone testing firm Grip, increasing their market share in the women’s health space Until now, comprehensive data on women’s health hasn’t existed, but Hertility is hoping that by acquiring Grip, they will expand the dataset and reach their goal of drastically cutting down [...]

Morrama launches a 'Prenatal Care' concept range to help parents manage pain and bond with their babies The design company that worked on the Elvie Catch breast milk collector has launched a ‘Prenatal Care’ concept range designed to help expecting parents manage pain, monitor their baby’s health, and build positive relationships with their unborn children [...]

HRT shortages have caused a rising panic among the one million women in the UK who use the treatment to manage perimenopause symptoms  Demand for HRT - hormone replacement therapy - has gone up by 30 per cent over the past five years due to the increased awareness through mainstream media, better education and GP confidence [...]

Kaleidas' Kathleen Giuliani tells FemTech World how the community-based platform is aiming to improve menstrual care and break down taboos  "Kaleidas comes from kaleidoscope," Kathleen Giuliani tells me at the start of our interview. "A kaleidoscope allows anyone who looks into it to have their own vision and this is what we aim to do [...]

Davina McCall's Channel 4 documentary is expected to create an increased demand for employee menopause support, as 88 per cent say the symptoms affect work Despite the general menopause discussion growing louder, recent research from Peppy, a digital health platform that offers employees access to remote support, has found that 78 per cent of employees with [...]

Ruth Health, an American telehealth platform for women, announces its $2.4 million seed funding round led by Giant Ventures. The collective investment highlights the demand for accessible, inclusive and comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care for American women, bringing Ruth Health’s total funding to $3.1 million. Through its suite of remote patient services, including pelvic floor [...]

A new partnership aims to advance AI-enabled digital pathology for end-to-end breast tumour profiling PathPresenter, a digital pathology platform and 4D Path, a Boston company producing computer-aided cancer diagnostic products, are announcing a global partnership to distribute 4D Q-plasia OncoReader Breast within the new clinical workflow platform, ClinPx. The 4D Q-plasia OncoReader Breast uses digitised [...]

Hannah Samano launches the first menstrual care platform, aiming to change the menstruation narrative Unfabled is the first menstrual wellbeing platform where women could find the products that they need during their cycle form a range of independent, women-owned businesses. Founded by British entrepreneur, Hannah Samano, Unfabled aims to become women's go-to place for sustainable, [...]

After researchers labelled the term 'morning sickness' as 'inaccurate', a pledge campaign is calling for the phrase to be replaced. Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy is usually called ‘morning sickness', but a recent study led by the University of Warwick has shown that the term tends to trivialise the condition. Symptoms have been described as [...]