Light exercise and less sitting may reduce pregnant women’s risk of serious blood pressure complications, according to a new study. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/3lKi069 #Pregnancy #MaternalHealth #Exercise #WomensHealth #HeartHealth

The highest dose of an oral GLP-1 was linked to significant weight loss across menopause stages in post-hoc analyses of two late-stage trials. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/W47XBm0 #Menopause #WeightLoss #ObesityCare #WomensHealth #GLP1

Pregnant women’s expectations about postpartum sleep may predict sleep quality after birth, outweighing prior sleep and psychiatric history, a study suggests. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/OZSEbg2 #PostpartumSleep #MaternalMentalHealth #Motherhood #SleepHealth #Women

A weight loss jab may improve fertility outcomes in women with PMOS, early findings from an ongoing clinical trial suggest. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/QHhZF35 #Fertility #PCOS #Semaglutide #WomensHealth #ReproductiveHealth

𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘂𝗺. 16 finalists across two categories (Medical Devices & Therapeutics and Consumer & Tech) will pitch on the mainstage at WHW Europe on 7-8 October in front of 700 investors, corporates, innovators, and strategic partners. Any company treating a condition that affects women exclusively, differently, or disproportionately is eligible to apply. Previous alumni include @BoobyBiome, who closed a £2.5M seed round in the year following their WHW Europe pitch. All applicants also have the opportunity to be featured in The Watchlist, WHW Europe's official directory of women's health innovators to know. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/SgnTJxT 👉 Apply to pitch: buff.ly/BhdkjHV #WHWEU #WHW #WomensHealth #Femtech #HealthInnovation #Startups #WHWEurope

A vaccine trial will test whether an mRNA jab can help stop precancerous cells developing into bowel and ovarian cancer in people with Lynch syndrome. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/RX4kbFQ #OvarianCancer #LynchSyndrome #CancerResearch #CancerPrevention #WomensHealth

Apple announced menopause and perimenopause tracking for Health at WWDC 2026, with symptom logging and cycle alerts for some users. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/FCi1ezJ #Menopause #Perimenopause #WomensHealth #DigitalHealth #AppleHealth

A £50m maternity consortium will bring together UK clinicians, researchers and communities to tackle the most critical gaps in maternal care. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/l14j7I5 #MaternalCare #PregnancyHealth #WomensHealth #HealthInequalities #MaternityCare

Peers have called for law reform after two House of Lords debates on fertility treatment, surrogacy, embryo research and declining birthrates. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/F9KPscy #Fertility #IVF #Surrogacy #WomensHealth #HealthPolicy

The University of Liverpool has secured £1.8m to test a device for postpartum bleeding and launch a new women’s health studio. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/Jwlbp4m #WomensHealth #MaternalHealth #HealthInnovation #PregnancyCare #Femtech

Changes in lymph nodes may help show which breast cancer patients face higher or lower risk of the disease spreading, researchers have found. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/SfJknfn #BreastCancer #LymphNodes #CancerResearch #Diagnosis #WomensHealth

“The belief that better support to founders alone will unlock scale overlooks the deeper structural constraints that determine whether the innovation is adopted at all” - Health Innovation Exchange 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/2y94nqf #Femtech #WomensHealth #HealthInnovation #WomenFounders #DigitalHealth

A new free menopause toolkit launched today to help UK employers respond better to menopause at work, improve wellbeing and retain experienced staff. 🔗 Full story: femtechworld.co.uk/news/meno… #Menopause #WorkplaceWellbeing #WomenAtWork #InclusiveWorkplaces #WomensHealth

Elation Health has acquired Aster, a Black-founded women’s health EHR startup created by sisters Fifi Kara and Dr Lailah Kara-Newton. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/l2JEsBw #HealthTech #WomensHealth #AIHealthcare #Entrepreneurship #DigitalHealth

A four-week Pilates programme may improve heart, metabolic and stress measures in previously sedentary women, a small study suggests. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/WQ4XIju #Pilates #WomensHealth #HeartHealth #MetabolicHealth #MentalHealth

AMH has become one of the most-requested blood tests in private women’s health. The number it gives back is useful, but only when it is read in context 🔗 Full story: femtechworld.co.uk/news/fert… #AMHTesting #Fertility #WomensHealth #FertilityTesting #ReproductiveHealth

British women are among the angriest in Europe, a global health survey has revealed. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/voTx2V4 #MentalHealth #WomensHealth #HealthcareAccess #NHS #HealthEquity

“The future of women’s mental health will not be built by asking women to monitor themselves more closely. It will be built by helping them understand themselves sooner - and arrive at conversations about their health with more continuity, context and clarity” - Ritika Sukhani, Véa 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/5FH46dB #MentalHealth #WomensHealth #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #Wellbeing

A new ovarian cancer drug has been approved for NHS use in England, offering hundreds of women with hard-to-treat disease a life-prolonging treatment. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/EWVnqXM #OvarianCancer #CancerTreatment #NHS #WomensHealth #Oncology

Female sex may not raise stroke risk across all atrial fibrillation (AF) patients, with higher risk mainly seen in women aged 75 and older, a study suggests. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/bng8Ct2 #HeartHealth #AtrialFibrillation #StrokePrevention #WomensHealth #Research