Read More “What Does The Future Of Fertility Look Like ?”

Healthcare wasn’t designed with women in mind.
Read More “Barriers to Innovation In Women’s Health (A Series).”

The following is a transcript of an interview by Oriana Kraft with Dongjin Shin, CEO of BL Science Corp – a pioneer and leader of In-vitro diagnostics, based in South Korea – about GynPad, a sanitation-pad that can be used to self-collect specimens for HPV and STD testing.  Read More “What doe the future of STD testing look like ? A FemTech Startup perspective.”

#1 At-Home hormone Tests

Read More “Trends in FemTech We’re Excited About”

1. To provide a 360 degree perspective: We seek to actively foster collaboration between all stakeholders of the women’s healthcare ecosystem – from university students (i.e. medical, engineering, computer science, social sciences), to groundbreaking researchers, chief clinicians, pharma and healthcare companies, key opinion leaders and FemTech startups.(If there is an area of women’s health you feel we’ve neglected or an actor that has not been sufficiently included in the conversation– let us know and tell us how you think we can do better! We want to catalyze innovation within the industry (which means including everyone)).

Read More “The Guiding Principles of FemTechnology”

“The healthcare system is broken”. You’ll hear that sentence uttered by both those delivering care and those on the receiving end of it. The reasons behind the dissatisfaction with the way the healthcare system functions are manifold – but let’s zero in on one: the difference in treatment between men and women. Women are twice as likely as men to say they have had health concerns dismissed by a GP.

Read More “Why we’re talking about medical education at the 2022 Summit:”

There is a fundamental and foundational lack of data when it comes to women’s health. A quick primer: In the U.S., women were not required to be included in clinical research until 1993, when Congress passed the NIH Revitalization Act.

As a direct consequence, the medication used and prescribed to this day was not tested, nor created with the female physiology in mind – with devastating consequences. Unsurprisingly, a study published in 2020 from UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago found that women experienced worse side effects in 90% of cases from medication as compared to men, and the “sex difference was not explained by sex differences in body weight.”

Read More “FemTech and Data – what does the future of women’s health look like?”

Aka Why there should be more FemTech solutions focussed on college-age students:

College-aged women are one of the least-serviced demographics when it comes to women’s healthcare, yet they are also the age range that would make most sense to target first. It is the age when many conditions first manifest:

Read More “Why are we ignoring the health of young women?  “

Did you know that approximately 75% of individuals with PCOS remain undiagnosed when visiting their doctor? Despite PCOS being the most common endocrine disease in women of reproductive age – we still don’t have standard diagnostic criteria.

Read More “Opportunities for improving the PCOS experience”

Here at the FemTechnology Summit we believe innovation in women’s health needs to take a 360 approach (and be tackled from the research side, in industry, by consulting patients and adapting clinical practices). That’s why we love featuring startups tackling all aspects of female health – from diagnostics to therapeutics to management and even community.

Here’s a round-up of exciting FemTech startups tackling pelvic floor health (Did you know that the National Institute of Health found that about 25% of women have pelvic floor dysfunction? And that this number increases to include about 50% of women by 80 years of age?)

Read More “Top Pelvic Floor FemTech Startups”

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Here at the FemTechnology Summit we believe innovation in women’s health needs to take a 360 approach (and be tackled from the research side, in industry, by consulting patients and adapting clinical practices). That’s why we love featuring startups tackling all aspects of female health – from diagnostics to therapeutics to management and even community.

Here’s a round-up of exciting FemTech startups tackling female hormonal health:
Read More “FemTech Startups innovating Hormonal Health”

Here at the FemTechnology Summit we believe innovation in women’s health needs to take a 360 approach (and be tackled from the research side, in industry, by consulting patients and adapting clinical practices). That’s why we love featuring startups tackling all aspects of female health – from diagnostics to therapeutics to management and even community.

Here’s are some exciting FemTech startups tackling endometriosis:
Read More “Innovative FemTech Startups tackling Endometriosis”

Here’s a round-up of FemTech startups innovating in the birth control space + why we’re excited about them!

#1 Startups working on Non-Hormonal Forms of Contraception:

Read More “FemTech Startups Innovating in Birth Control”

Read More “Why We’re Talking About The Gender Data Health Gap”

Read More “What Does The Future Of Care Look Like?”

Did you know that children of mothers with PCOS are 31% more likely to be admitted to the hospital for infectious diseases and 47% more likely to be admitted for allergy-related problems?

Read More “Why PCOS is about more than just fertility”

If you walk into a room with 10 women, chances are 1 of those women is living with Endometriosis: a disease that is both chronic and excruciatingly painful. Currently there is no non-invasive means of diagnosing the disease – nor is there a cure.

Read More “Why we’re talking about Endometriosis at the 2022 Summit”

Here at the FemTechnology Summit we believe innovation in women’s health needs to take a 360 approach (and be tackled from the research side, in industry, by consulting patients and adapting clinical practices). That’s why we love featuring startups tackling all aspects of female health – from diagnostics to therapeutics to management and even community.

Here’s a round-up of exciting FemTech startups helping manage period pain / menstrual cramps (and about time too!):
Read More “Pain Management and FemTech – Startups Tackling Menstrual Cramps”

70% of the people impacted by chronic pain are women – however 80% of pain studies are conducted on male mice or human men. Unsurprisingly, there are gender differences in the way women and men respond to analgesic drugs – as well as the way women and men experience the sensation of pain – but this has yet to be incorporated into evidence-based medicine.

Read More “Why we’re talking about women and chronic pain at the 2022 Summit”