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Apple announced menopause and perimenopause tracking for its Health app at WWDC 2026, with symptom logging and cycle alerts for some users. The update expands the app’s cycle tracking beyond fertility and menstrual periods. If logged cycle patterns suggest a user may be experiencing perimenopause, the app will send a notification prompting a conversation with [...]

A £50m maternity consortium will bring together UK clinicians, researchers and communities to tackle the most critical gaps in maternal care. Funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research has established the NIHR Inequalities Challenge: Maternity Disparities Consortium under the leadership of the University of Birmingham and Newcastle University. Higher education bodies, NHS [...]

Peers have called for law reform after two House of Lords debates on fertility treatment, surrogacy, embryo research and declining birthrates. The first debate was put forward by crossbench peer Baroness Ruth Deech, who previously chaired the UK’s fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She discussed proposals from the HFEA to reform the [...]

The University of Liverpool has secured £1.8m to test a device for postpartum bleeding and launch a new women’s health studio. The PPH Butterfly is designed to help control postpartum haemorrhage, which is severe bleeding after childbirth and a leading cause of maternal death worldwide. The funding will support research into how the device can [...]

Changes in lymph nodes may help show which breast cancer patients face higher or lower risk of the disease spreading, researchers have found. The findings could support more tailored care, new treatments and help more people avoid unnecessary treatment. Dr Simon Vincent is chief scientific officer at Breast Cancer Now, which funded the [...]

By the Health Innovation Exchange For more than a decade, femtech’s scale gap has been treated as a funding problem.  What if that diagnosis is incomplete? Despite growing attention, women founders still receive just 2 per cent of global venture funding, and years of advocacy have failed to shift the needle. This persistence [...]

A new free menopause toolkit has been launched to help UK employers respond better to menopause at work, improve wellbeing and retain experienced staff. Wellbeing of Women has launched MENO-Kit in partnership with Lancaster University, which it describes as the UK’s first evidence-based menopause workplace toolkit. The online resource translates more than a decade of [...]

Elation Health has acquired Aster, a women’s health EHR startup created by sisters Fifi Kara and Dr Lailah Kara-Newton. The deal, announced on 3 June 2026, will see Aster’s team join Elation Health as the company expands development of what it describes as the first agentic operating system for primary care. An EHR, or electronic [...]

A four-week Pilates programme may improve heart, metabolic and stress measures in previously sedentary women, a small study suggests. Pilates is a mind-body form of exercise that has been linked to better fitness, balance, posture, muscular endurance, mental wellbeing and quality of life in different groups. Built around breathing, concentration, control, precision, centring and flow, [...]

Article produced in association with Spital Clinic AMH has become one of the most-requested blood tests in private women’s health. The number it gives back is useful, but only when it is read in context. AMH testing in the UK has gone mainstream over the past few years. Home-testing kits sell it as a snapshot [...]