Wellness

The health and tech industries are failing to capitalise on a $360bn “ghost market” in women’s health, according to a new report. According to the Galen Growth research, femtech global venture funding reached $2.2bn in 2024, but few digital health ventures are addressing the most common health concerns that impact women, such as cardiovascular disease [...]

A new two-day summit in Hong Kong aims to highlight why supporting women’s health is not just a moral obligation but an economic imperative. Around the world, women continue to face barriers to healthcare—whether through regressive policies, underfunding or lack of access. At the same time, a growing number of women-led start-ups and companies are [...]

Women using weight loss injections have been advised to use reliable contraception after the UK’s medicines regulator received 40 reports of pregnancies—some of them unexpected, despite birth control. As reported by Sky News, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a public safety alert about GLP-1 receptor agonists—including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Saxenda, [...]

Women who regularly drank caffeinated coffee in midlife were more likely to age in good physical and mental health, according to a major study that tracked nearly 50,000 participants over three decades. The research analysed data from 47,513 women in the long-running Nurses’ Health Study, with dietary and health data collected since 1984. Healthy ageing [...]

A new study has found that eating about two servings of mangos daily for two weeks significantly reduced several short-term blood pressure measures as well as fasting total and LDL cholesterol in healthy postmenopausal women. Conducted by researchers at University of California, Davis, the study showed measurable improvements in key heart health markers. Two hours [...]

A self-collection device for cervical cancer screening has shown equivalent effectiveness to traditional clinic-based testing, according to new research that could help address screening gaps affecting women's health outcomes. The SELF-CERV trial, which validated the Teal Wand device across 16 medical sites in the United States, found that self-collected samples detected precancer 96 per cent [...]

By Gail MacLeitch, psychotherapist and VP of AI communications provider QuickBlox, and Leslie Taylor, co-founder of Half the Sky, the team behind BestYet—a digital platform which helps women take control of their menopausal journey. Despite spending more than a third of their lives in menopause, most women face this transition with little support, personally or professionally. Instead, women tend [...]

By Gloria Kolb, Co-Founder & CEO – Elitone Just a couple of months after launching Elitone in the UK, we were delighted to become an approved supplier to the NHS in March this year, to provide Trusts throughout the UK with Elitone as a new solution for pelvic health and incontinence. The NHS is the [...]

Scientists have found that global warming in the Middle East and North Africa is making breast, ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancer more common and more deadly.  The rise in rates is small but statistically significant, suggesting a notable increase in cancer risk and fatalities over time. “As temperatures rise, cancer mortality among women also rises [...]

By Karishma Patel, Cofounder & Chief Brand Officer at Ema Let’s get this out of the way: Women’s health isn’t a niche. It’s the blueprint. Not just for healthcare. For technology, period. We’ve been sold the idea that designing for women is somehow “specialised,” when in reality it’s the most rigorous, emotionally complex, and systemically [...]