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The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has referred to the women's health strategy as a 'missed opportunity' to address maternity services.  The renewed strategy was released by the government this week, with the aim of putting women's experiences at the centre of care and ensuring they are "better heard and served". However, the government stated [...]

Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic and Jeen Health For the majority of couples planning a pregnancy, genetic testing is not something they think about until a problem arises. Pre-conception genetic carrier screening challenges this approach by identifying risk before pregnancy begins. As panel sizes have grown and at-home testing options have become [...]

A London-based fertility clinic has been shortlisted for a startup award. Plan Your Baby was shortlisted as a London finalist for Innovative Startup of the Year at the UK StartUp Awards. Plan Your Baby is a new generation fertility and pregnancy telehealth clinic that provides fertility treatment and and-to-end pregnancy clinical monitoring and psychological support. [...]

By Katrina Zalcmane, co-founder of Véa 101,000 journalled words. That's what it took to make women's mental load measurable - and what it revealed was not what we expected. We can track a woman's cycle to the hour, map her hormones, her fertility window, her sleep habits. But we have had remarkably little structured visibility [...]

By Women’s Health Week With four weeks to go until Women's Health Week USA, the excitement is ramping up! The final early bird pricing closes this Friday, the full speaker lineup is confirmed, and a record number of pitch applications signals the depth of innovation now moving through the sector as we enter the Era [...]

You have until Friday to nominate your femtech company of the year. The award is one of 10 featuring at Femtech World's third annual awards event, which attracts entries from across the UK, EU and Europe. The Company of the Year Award is for companies that have demonstrated exceptional leadership in tackling women's health needs [...]

Women with osteoporosis may be more likely to carry a gene linked to Alzheimer's, according to new research. Scientists found that APOE4, the most common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's, can weaken bone quality in women, even when standard scans appear normal. The study, carried out by researchers at the Buck Institute for Research on [...]

Health secretary Wes Streeting has relaunched England's women's health strategy, vowing to stop women being "gaslit" by doctors. Speaking before publication of the renewed strategy, the health secretary said the NHS was "failing women" and set out measures to help them access the healthcare they need. The government said the strategy would include a new [...]

Future Fertility, a Toronto-based health technology company specialising in AI-powered fertility insights, has entered the Japanese market through a new commercial partnership with Kato Ladies Clinic — a globally recognised leader in IVF research and advancing clinical fertility care. The collaboration marks Future Fertility’s first partnership in Japan and reflects growing global demand for technologies [...]

Article produced in association with London Pregnancy Clinic and Jeen Health For many years, formal clinical involvement in a pregnancy began at the point of confirmation, typically around eight to ten weeks. The concept of the '0th trimester' represents a shift in thinking: that the period before conception is itself a clinically significant window, during [...]