By Misbah Mahmood, CXIO & Clinical Safety Officer, Bradford District Care Trust, (Former digital midwife at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and long-standing K2/HHA...
New research shows that states that have the most severe restrictions on abortion may also have the poorest reproductive health care and support infrastructure. The United...
A new study suggests that pregnancy-related hypertension can lead to heart disease during menopause. For the study, researchers sought to assess the association between a self-reported...
Men taking valproate and their partners are being advised by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to use effective contraception because of new...
New research has shown that an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled digital stethoscope helped doctors identify twice as many cases of heart failure compared to a control group...
A new study suggests that prescribers at ketamine clinics aren’t paying enough attention to the risk of harm from ketamine to an foetus, and should do...
A new study has has found that women who received a false-positive result that required additional imaging or biopsy were less likely to return for that...
White women are paid up to eight times more for their eggs than Black women in the US, according to data uncovered by the author of...
By Annie Theriault, managing partner at Cross-Border Impact Ventures (CBIV)
A new study has found that a blood test measuring three independent biological markers can better predict risk of major cardiovascular events over the next three...
BioInnovation Institute (BII), a non-profit foundation advancing life science research, has boarded 12 new companies onto its acceleration programme. The 12-month Venture Lab programme aims to...
A study which compared pelvic floor yoga to general muscle conditioning found that yoga was only slightly better at relieving bladder issues. Yoga has been recommended...
An NHS Trust has been recognised as a specialist centre for endometriosis treatment and surgery. The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) has been given accreditation by the...
Flo Health has recently become Europe's first femtech unicorn, raising more than US$200m in funding
The US fertility start-up Kindbody has opened a new clinic in San Diego to expand access to reproductive care in Southern California. The announcement comes at a...
The Biden-Harris administration has pledged to reduce the nation’s high maternal mortality rate
The healthcare company Aetna has become the first major US insurer to introduce intrauterine insemination (IUI) as a medical benefit for eligible plans. Aetna, a CVS...
The innovations transforming reproductive medicine and giving hope to millions of prospective parents across the globe are being recognised at the Femtech World Awards. Infertility is...
Partum Health, a Chicago-based maternal health start-up that provides interdisciplinary pregnancy and postpartum care, is expanding to Dallas. Partum, a start-up founded in Chicago in 2021,...
The medtech start-up Cairn Surgical has secured US$4.5m in funding to improve breast cancer surgery. The round, led by Morningside Ventures, is hoped to help the...
Endometriosis affects more than 190 million women and girls globally
