Women’s longevity, safer birth, sexual wellness, and hormone health.

Technology and research transforming women’s health and wellness.

Hi there,

Natasha here. It is Thursday, which means we are saying hello to a new edition of the FemHealth newsletter. The goal of this newsletter is to bring you into the world of technology for women, covering innovations and research to better women’s health and wellbeing. 

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Now into the world of technology… 

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Daisy Robinton channeling her furor to solve women’s longevity (read more in the News Reads section 👇).

Looking for a period tracking app? Check out this summary of the best tracking apps available on the market.

Giving birth becomes safer with Raydiant Oximetry (read more in the News Reads section 👇).

Learn about women talking about fertility, menopause, and contraception.

Evvy, a company providing an at-home test kit to monitor vaginal health, shares why women’s health should be a priority in the near future.

From the comfort of your home, learn how your hormones change during the entire cycle with Forth (read more in the News Reads section 👇).

Most prominent locations of ‘femtech’ companies in the world.

Rosy is bringing insights into sexual wellness to the next level (read more in the News Reads section 👇).

A biotech startup uses algae to solve female health problems. 

Virtual platform for managing pregnancy and babycare, Babyscripts, raises an additional 7.5M to bring their product to the next level.

Women were found to drink alcohol much more during the Covid-19 pandemic.

News Reads

Giving birth to a baby becomes safer with Raydiant Oximetry. Unnecessary C-sections are performed very frequently during childbirth. One of the reasons to perform one is if a newborn is detected to be distressed during the labor. The common techniques to detect a child’s level of stress are often inaccurate, leading to health complications for a child or an unnecessary risk to a mother added by the C-section procedure. Raydiant Oximetry is working on a device to measure a baby's condition more accurately and recently raised 5M to scale their product further. Read more here. 

Could delaying menopause by tweaking the ovarian cycle increase women’s longevity? Daisy Robinton is researching the discomfort that surrounds the menopause stage of life, and is looking for a way to stave off that uncomfortable time to help women lead longer, happier lives. Modifying the ovarian hormones in women through chemical sequencing could be a way to delay menopause for as long as desired. Read more here.

From the comfort of your home, learning how your hormones change during the entire cycle. UK-based Forth, providing at-home blood tests, raised 1.6M to support the launch of a new product, Female Hormone Mapping. The new test doesn’t just test female hormones on a single day, but it also provides a personalized map of how hormones fluctuate during a woman’s cycle, based on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, which show how the hormones fluctuate during a woman’s cycle. Find out more here.

Bringing insights into sexual wellness to the next level. A US-based digital wellness company,Rosy, raised a $2M seed round to continue growing its product. The company is building a platform that contains a pool of educational resources for women’s sexual wellbeing (classes, lectures, stories) as well as a network of professionals to guide women on their journey. Read more about the funding round here.

Research Reads

Genetic testing for aneuploidy (a condition where a child has an extra or a missing chromosome) is commonly performed preimplantation to find out the chances of successful embryo implantation. New research shows that the aneuploidy test results might not affect the overall birth rate success compared to conventional IVF results without the genetic test. Click here for the research article. 

Genetics might be the reason behind the cognitive differences due to aging between women and men. Read more here.

Listening to:

A little bit about egg freezing

Listen to an episode of Science Daily to learn how AI will revolutionize fertility treatments.

That’s it for now. Till the next time!

Yours,

Natasha