Women’s Health

AXA Launches a $300M Health Initiative to Improve Access to Healthcare for Underserved Populations with a Focus on Women’s Health

AXA has committed $300M to a health initiative, managed by AXA Investment Managers and designed to facilitate access to healthcare for underserved populations in emerging and mature markets. This initiative will support, amongst other global health issues, treatment of women’s specific health conditions as well as infectious diseases, vision and diabetes/obesity related conditions. The strategy will be launched in the first quarter of…

Minerva Surgical Launches a New Educational Website for Women Living with Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Minerva Surgical, a women’s health company focused on the treatment of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB), has launched a new consumer education portal: AUB and Me, which was showcased at the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL) 50th Global Congress earlier this week. Minerva Surgical is a commercial-stage medical technology company focused on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing minimally invasive solutions to meet the distinct…

Report: The Case to Fund Women’s Health Research – An Economic and Societal Impact Analysis (WHAM)

WHAM is an NGO, that invests in women’s health research to transform women’s lives. The organization works across diseases that impact women differently and differentially – brain health, heart health, immune and autoimmune health and cancer. WHAM has now released a new report that shows the impact of accelerating sex and gender–based health research on women, their families, and the economy: “The…

The 8 Top Femtech Startups in the UAE

Over the past few weeks Organon launched a femtech accelerator addressing the MENA region, Nabta Health’s Sophie Smith kicked off 2022 Angels, an angel investing initiative in MENAT, Asian Femtech NGO Femtech Up is looking at branching out into the Middle East with the support of Dubai-based DellaHQ founder Karen Heng and a few European early stage startups are starting to explore opportunities…

Hims & Hers Launches a New Mobile App Combining Education, E-commerce and Telehealth

Hims & Hers, the multi-specialty telehealth platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers, today unveiled its plans to provide more complete, holistic and personalized care experiences with the launch of the Hims & Hers mobile app. The Company intends to begin rolling out the app to its over 500,000 subscription members in the coming weeks. “Today marks…

Patient Education Company Mytonomy Releases a New Video-based Learning Platform for Maternal Health

Mytonomy, a leader in video-based patient engagement and healthcare microlearning video education, is advancing patient education with its new Cloud for Maternal Care, a comprehensive virtual care offering for all expectant and new mothers spanning healthy pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum. “Our Cloud for Maternal Care gives every woman an on-demand concierge-like experience, providing the right information for each stage of…

Amazon AWS Financially Supports Tidepool’s Period Project to Explore the Connection between Diabetes and Women’s Health

Tidepool, a 501(c)3 nonprofit committed to providing software at no charge to the diabetes community, has received financial support from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in support of the Tidepool Period Project, a new initiative that strives to address the unmet needs of people with diabetes who menstruate. This funding will support prototype concepts and user interface designs for both the clinician and…

Moving Towards Equity in Women’s Health Research – Presented by Tech4Eva & Swissnex Boston

In 1977 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made a decision to exclude “women of childbearing potential from participation in clinical trials”. The reasoning at the time? Male and female bodies are pretty much the same and hormonal fluctuations during a menstrual cycle would only complicate analysis of any data collected — and increase costs. Plus, the risk of including women of…