Wellness

By Chaitra Vedullapalli, Founder and President, Women in Cloud

A new report has explored the future of femtech, and how innovation is redefining women's health and longevity. Women's health has historically lagged behind men's due to systemic inequities in research, representation, and care. Compounded with the recently accepted experience of medical gaslighting, these inequalities have created a system that often overlooks the complexity of [...]

Women's digital health company Twentyeight Health has secures US$10m funding to expand its services in order to help lower barriers to sexual and reproductive care in the US. Twentyeight Health provides telemedicine consultations, at-home deliveries, and ongoing access to providers for services like birth control and herpes treatments, particularly in underserved communities. "45 per cent [...]

The hormone oestrogen regulates binge drinking in females, causing them to “pregame” – consume large quantities of alcohol in the first 30 minutes after it’s offered, according to a new preclinical study. The study establishes–for what is thought to be the first time–that circulating oestrogen increases binge alcohol consumption in females and contributes to known [...]

Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression and often experience more severe physical symptoms. This gender difference is particularly evident during reproductive years and dramatically impacts the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. However, although links between mental health and reproductive health have been found, the associations have remained [...]

Persperity Health, a new company spun out of The California Institute of Technology, has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of its sweat-sensing technology that provides real-time, non-invasive hormonal insights. The technology enables real-time hormone monitoring through device-based sweat analysis, enabling non-invasive hormone monitoring for women ad providing personalised health insights. [...]

FemTech Association Asia, the region’s first and largest specialist advisory and industry network with a core focus on improving women's health through technology solutions, has announced its expansion into Bhutan. The launch marks an exciting new chapter for the organisation as it continues to build a robust network across Asia, promoting innovation, education, and advocacy [...]

Lindus Health has launched its "All-in-One Women's Health CRO" offering of contract research organisation (CRO) and technology solutions bespoke to running clinical trials for women's health products. Women have an increased risk of developing certain diseases like breast cancer, osteoporosis, autoimmune disorders, and more. They may also experience very different treatment responses to medications than [...]

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a growing public health problem among pregnant and parenting people in the U.S. Between 1999 and 2014, the number of pregnant women with OUD increased by more than four times. This trend also coincides with a rise in pregnancy-associated maternal overdose mortality. Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University, led by Meghan [...]

A groundbreaking finding challenges conventional understanding of stress responses during pregnancy that could potentially revolutionise our understanding of pregnancy-related anxiety and depression. Professor Clifton, a maternal health expert professor at Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland, and her team, has identified 13 distinct glucocorticoid receptor isoforms in the placenta, with one particular variant showing a surprising [...]