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Vancouver forum brings policy, industry and health leaders together to tap Canada's US$37bn femtech opportunity. The 2025 Femtech Canada Forum brought together representatives from policy, academia, industry and global health organisations to address what organisers describe as a US$37bn economic opportunity for Canada's economy through women's health technology. Femtech Canada announced it will join the [...]

Innovate UK offers up to 60 grants of £75,000 for women founders, plus business support and networking. The Women in Innovation Awards 2025–26 targets women founders and co-founders of late-stage start-ups with minimum viable products, early user interest or revenue, and plans to raise significant capital within 12 to 24 months. Successful applicants will receive [...]

By Femi Adetoro, marketing manager, Women’s Health Week Women’s Health Week Europe 2025 brought 400 investors, innovators, corporates, clinicians, and policymakers together at the beautiful Barbican Centre in London for three days of big thinking and real partnership-building. This was my first Women’s Health Week, and over a month later, the conversations are still shaping [...]

GE HealthCare has secured US FDA authorisation for Pristina Recon DL, an AI tool that sharpens 3D mammogram images to support breast cancer detection. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, with around one in eight expected to receive a diagnosis in their lifetime and more than a million deaths projected [...]

Applications open for three grants supporting women’s health research and AI, offering over US$1.3m across projects in cardiology, fertility and tech. The American Heart Association will award up to US$1m across up to 10 one-year awards (US$100,000 each) through Redefining Women’s Health: From Heart to Head to Hormones. Priorities include ischaemia with non-obstructive coronary arteries [...]

As new European research shows millennials are more likely to miss cervical cancer screenings than any other generation, experts warn that failing to address major barriers - from fear to family and workplace pressures - could undermine global elimination targets. Results from a survey of over 5,500 women aged 16-64 found that 31 per cent [...]

An artificial intelligence model predicts five-year breast cancer risk more accurately than traditional breast density assessment, new research shows. The image-only AI model, called Clairity Breast, showed that women in its high-risk group had more than a fourfold higher cancer incidence than those in the average-risk group (5.9 per cent vs 1.3 per cent). Breast [...]

Medical experts say the FDA bypassed standard procedures to remove black-box warnings from hormone therapy without adequate scientific evidence. The US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary announced the removal of broad black-box warnings from oestrogen-related menopause medications last week, claiming the treatments could prevent heart disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease and death. Black-box warnings [...]

Study finds heat exposure in pregnancy alters maternal biology linked to preterm birth. The research analysed blood samples from 215 pregnant women in metropolitan Atlanta, matching their residential addresses with maximum temperatures experienced throughout their pregnancies to identify molecular changes associated with both heat exposure and preterm delivery. Preterm birth, defined as delivery before 37 [...]

By Maxime Kryvian, co-founder and CEO of MyCelsius Menopause remains one of the biggest taboos in women’s health. Often treated as a private matter to be discussed quietly, when it is a significant life stage that deeply affects the physical, mental, and social well-being of millions of women. Yet menopause symptoms are still [...]