News

"Game-changing" home urine tests to detect early stage breast cancer are being developed in Wales, alongside similar work on endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. Researchers said they hope to have a prototype kit within the next year to detect early stage breast cancer using a lateral flow urine sample. Lateral flow tests are simple strip-based [...]

One of the questions we hear most often from founders, clinicians, and product teams considering an entry to the Femtech World Awards is some version of: does what we do actually count? The short answer is: probably yes. The longer answer is what this blog is for. Menopause innovation is not a single category. It [...]

Women in Scotland wait more than 10 years on average for an endometriosis diagnosis, according to a survey conducted by Endometriosis UK. The charity, which raises awareness and aims to improve the lives of women with the condition, said the average diagnosis time is now 10 years and two months. That is an increase from [...]

Artificial intelligence is transforming women's health at a pace and scale that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. If you are building in this space, your work matters - and the AI Innovation Award exists to make sure the world knows it. This award honours an individual or organisation pioneering the use of artificial [...]

Oestrogen helps protect premenopausal women from hypertension by relaxing and widening blood vessels, according to new research examining why women develop high blood pressure less often before menopause. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects more than a billion people worldwide and is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke. Premenopausal women are [...]

Women are almost twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with anxiety. Depression, PTSD, perinatal mental health conditions and the psychological weight of hormonal disorders affect hundreds of millions of women worldwide. The gap between the scale of this problem and the quality of solutions available is vast. The Femtech World Awards seeks to [...]

A South Korean femtech firm has launched plant-based period pads in the US, replacing synthetic superabsorbent polymers used in most pads with a plant-derived alternative. Most period pads, including those marketed as organic, use synthetic superabsorbent polymers, or SAPs. These plastic-based materials sit in the pad’s core and absorb menstrual fluid. Inertia says [...]

By Tuned Global Mental health problems affect both men and women, but not in equal measure. According to the Mental Health Foundation, one in five adults has a common mental health condition: about 24 per cent of women and 15 per cent of men. The Mind Organisation also reveals women are more likely to have [...]

Digital symptom checkers could reduce endometriosis diagnosis delays by more than four years and save over US$5,000 per patient, according to a modelling study. Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the womb lining grows outside the uterus, often causing pelvic pain and other symptoms. In the US it takes about seven years on [...]

Outpost Bio has raised €2.9m (US$3.5m) in pre-seed funding to develop a platform aimed at making human microbiology computable. The London and Boston-based startup, founded in 2025 by Dr Jenny Yang and Alex Merwin, says it is working to decode interactions between microbes and human biology that it believes are often overlooked by existing biological [...]