Wellness

Gut health solutions company Bactolife has successfully raised over €30 million in its Series B investment round. The funding will enable the company to commercialise its innovative Binding Proteins, a new food, feed and dietary supplement ingredient, and execute its human study programme, aimed at transforming human and animal health for proactive health management. This [...]

By Olga Melita, founder, NeuroScent In the East, menopause is not feared - it is revered. It is known as The Second Spring - a time when a woman’s vital energy, once directed outward toward nurturing, creating, building and holding space for others, begins to return inward. This is not the end of [...]

By Ruby Raut, founder and CEO, WUKA If you have ever noticed that your cramps feel sharper, your mood dips harder, or your energy seems to disappear during the colder months, you are not imagining it. Winter can genuinely make periods feel more painful and more difficult to manage. The combination of cold weather, less [...]

By Ruby Raut, founder and CEO, WUKA When we think of period products, the usual concerns are comfort, absorbency, cost and maybe sustainability. But there is another dimension — one less talked about but increasingly evidenced: chemical exposure via intimate-use products, and what this might mean for hormones, fertility, our microbiome and long-term health. What [...]

By Ruby Raut, founder and CEO, WUKA Over the past year, headlines about “toxic period products” have been hard to ignore. Stories about PFAS, heavy metals, and hormone disruptors in pads, tampons, and underwear have sparked global concern, and for good reason. But behind the fear, there’s a scientific story worth understanding. At the recent [...]

Women experience slightly worse recovery than men in the first year after stroke, with more difficulty with daily tasks such as eating, dressing and driving. The differences persisted after adjusting for age, race and ethnicity, education and insurance status, according to the study. The research, led by Chen Chen at the University of Michigan, examined [...]

A large real-world study has found that an AI-powered digital tool developed by Megi Health can significantly reduce blood pressure over time while maintaining high long-term patient engagement -  a combination that has remained a major challenge in hypertension care. The peer-reviewed research, published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth, analysed real-world data from more than [...]

Joy Parenting Club acquires Heba Care, widening its parenting support platform, and will roll out an AI tracker for feeding, sleep and nappies to all Joy users in 30 to 60 days. The tracker is currently in beta testing. Joy combines AI guidance on feeding, sleep, child development and everyday parenting with access to clinically [...]

Routine mammograms could help assess cardiovascular disease risk in women, new research suggests. The study found that both the severity of calcium in breast arteries and how it progressed on mammograms predicted future cardiovascular disease. Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine analysed data from 10,348 women who had repeat mammograms, with an [...]

The NHS is rolling out a new safety signal system across maternity services in England to spot emerging concerns and prevent tragedies. The Maternity Outcomes Signal System (MOSS) rapidly analyses routine ward data to flag issues needing urgent attention. If an unusual pattern is detected, a warning signal is sent to the unit, which must [...]