According to a new survey commissioned by SimpleHealth, an online reproductive health control provider and prescriber, just ten percent of patients who rely on telemedicine services for birth control would return to in-person care for birth control after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. SimpleHealth asked 100,000 people who get their birth control online from a broad range of providers, including Nurx and the Pill Club. According to…
Kiran Roest is no stranger to healthcare innovation. Following a first-class BA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in Immunology & Virology from Imperial College London, Kiran has added 15+ years of experience driving innovation initiatives at world-leading Life Science and Medtech organisations, including Thomson Reuters and Pfizer, across clinical and scientific research, business development and consulting. She has…
Earlier this week Pill Club announced that Liz Meyerdirk is joining the company as CEO. Liz was a founding member of Uber Eats and helped grow it into a $30B+ business. She also joins Pill Club’s board. Founder and former CEO, Nick Chang, is staying on as president and executive chairman. Liz Meyerdrink joins Pill Club at a time when women’s health…
U.K.based personal hygiene company Reckitt Benckiser has announced the acquisition of intimate care brand Queen V last week. Queen V has been around since 2018 and offers a selection of vaginal hygiene and health products. The company was backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and has sold products at Walmart and CVS. Queen V will now join Reckitt Benckiser’s health global business, that’s…
Ever wondered how Femtech Insider came to be? You’re in luck as our founder Kathrin Folkendt recently told the whole story on UK Health Radio’s Health Tech Hour, a weekly interview series hosted by PocDoc CEO Steve Roest. Kathrin openly shares how her own struggles with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) led to the start of Femtech Insider and subsequently the founding of…
Digital health and virtual care technologies have proved invaluable during the COVID-19 pandemic in keeping patients and their care teams in virtual contact, accelerating digital transformation in healthcare. Digital technologies including remote patient monitoring, cloud-based services and AI are playing an ever more important part in achieving better patient outcomes, better patient and staff experiences, and low cost of care – the…
MobileODT, a femtech company innovating in cervical screening, has been awarded a prestigious Small Business Innovation Research Authority grant of $2.3 million. This grant is presented by the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI) to leading companies that are technologically and clinically advanced to support the NCI’s goal of reducing suffering and death due to cancer. This grant is a tribute to the…
Gynesonics, a women’s healthcare company focused on the development of minimally invasive solutions for symptomatic uterine fibroids, announced today that Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital is the first hospital in Michigan to introduce the Sonata Procedure. Fibroids are benign growths in or around the uterus, with about 70 percent of white women and more than 80 percent of black women…
