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By Professor Ama Johal, clinical lead and dental sleep expert at Aerox Health During menopause, it’s very common for women to notice significant changes to their sleep patterns and experience things like restless nights, loud snoring, or simply waking up feeling exhausted. What most don’t realise, however, is that these symptoms can signal something far [...]

The FDA will remove the menopause drug warning from hormone therapies, citing updated evidence on stroke and heart risks. US health officials said Monday they will drop the boxed warning — the strongest safety alert on a drug label — from more than 20 pills, patches and creams with hormones such as oestrogen and progestin, [...]

A London executive is suing a fertility clinic, alleging its IVF treatment led to her suffering a stroke. Navkiran Dhillon-Byrne, 51, began private IVF treatment at the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre (ARGC) in Wimpole Street, London, in April 2018. Ten days after her treatment ended, on 28 April 2018, she suffered a stroke, which [...]

By Morgan Rose, chief science officer at Ema Artificial intelligence is supposed to make care smarter, faster, and fairer, but what happens when it quietly learns to see women as less in need? New research from the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics, led by Sam Rickman, reveals a [...]

Dr Olivia Ahn, founder of FLUUS The FemTech industry is rapidly innovating, but the conversation often neglects a fundamental issue: material safety. While we focus on digital tracking and advanced fabrics, the tiny, ubiquitous fragments of plastic in our personal care products, microplastics, pose a significant, yet often silent, threat to women’s intimate and systemic [...]

Have you noticed how some weeks you feel clear-headed and energetic, while others leave you foggy, anxious, or tearful? There's a reason for that. Your mental health during PMS and across your entire menstrual cycle isn't random. It's deeply connected to how your brain responds to shifting hormone levels. Estrogen and progesterone don't just affect [...]

Women's heath firm Organon has agreed to divest its Jada postpartum uterine bleeding system to Laborie Medical Technologies in a deal worth up to US$465m, as the company moves to cut debt. Organon obtained Jada through its 2021 purchase of Alydia Health, the same year it was spun out of Merck. The device uses vacuum [...]

By Dr Hisham Abouzeid, consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, Transform Femme Across the UK, women are facing an unacceptable reality when it comes to their health. From pelvic floor problems and heavy bleeding to chronic pain and postnatal complications, millions of women are living with treatable conditions that are simply not being treated, often for [...]

Midlands-founded health-tech scale-up Rem3dy Health has landed £1.4m in new funding. The announcement was made at Birmingham Tech Week, as part of their Scale-Up Summit. During the event, Founder and CEO Melissa Snover confirmed that the Amsterdam-based Borski Fund, which specialises in backing high-growth, women-led ventures, has invested £900,000 in Rem3dy Health, alongside a further [...]

By Dr Louise Newson BSc(Hons) MBChB(Hons) MRCGP FRCGP DHealth Over years of studying the health of women there’s one key thing that I've come to realise; clinicians have often been missing a crucial piece of the puzzle in understanding women’s mental health and brain function. It all comes down to three hormones that deserve far [...]