What You Should Know:
- Prickly Pear Health, a digital health company specializing in women's brain health, announced the official launch of its AI-powered digital brain health app for women navigating the perimenopausal transition.
- Built by female founder Imen Maaroufi Clark, the app is designed specifically for women navigating the perimenopausal and menopausal transition (ages 35-55), the app utilizes AI, voice data, and wearable inputs to deliver personalized insights
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Femtech
Berry Fertility Launches Revamped App, Streamlines IVF, IUI and Egg Freezing
What You Should Know:
- Berry Fertility unveils a significant app update, introducing a powerful suite of new tools designed to simplify and support every stage of the fertility journey, including IUI, IVF, egg freezing, and embryo transfers.
- Berry Fertility is a comprehensive patient management platform designed for individuals undergoing IVF, IUI, embryo transfer, and egg freezing.
Addressing Growing Demand and Access Gaps in Fertility Care
Fertility care is
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Swedish Femtech Venture Studio Daya Ventures Raises Capital for Global Expansion
What You Should Know:
- Daya Ventures, a Swedish venture studio that has rapidly established itself by building femtech companies from scratch, today announced the first close of its ongoing funding round.
- The company has successfully secured SEK 2 million of a total targeted SEK 8 million, with investments from high-profile backers from both Wall Street and Europe. The capital injection is earmarked to scale Daya's proven model of creating an "Ecosystem for Women's Health"
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Noom Launches Free Menopause Education Hub with Tamsen Fadal
What You Should Know:
- Noom, a digital healthcare company focused on chronic disease prevention launches its new Menopause Education Hub. This free resource aims to help women navigate the complexities of menopause with tools and support developed in partnership with NYT bestselling author, podcaster, filmmaker, and menopause advocate Tamsen Fadal.
- As part of this collaboration, Tamsen Fadal joins Noom as the brand's first-ever Official Menopause Awareness Advocate. The
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HerMD Launches Specialized Virtual Care Platform Focusing on Menopause and Sexual Health
What You Should Know:
- HerMD, a pioneer in evidence-based women's healthcare announced the launch of Virtual Care by HerMD, a specialized telehealth platform designed to deliver comprehensive women's health services with a dedicated focus on menopause and sexual health. Scheduling for the new virtual services is now open, with appointments set to begin on June 2, 2025.
- While the organization recently closed its physical locations due to challenges within the broader healthcare
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Philips & March of Dimes to Integrate Maternal Health Content into Avent Pregnancy+ App
What You Should Know:
- Philips and March of Dimes, the nation’s leading nonprofit fighting for the health of all moms and babies, announced a new collaboration aimed at improving maternal health education.
- The partnership will see essential March of Dimes content integrated into the widely used Philips Avent Pregnancy+ app, with the goal of enhancing health literacy and raising awareness on critical topics such as preparing for a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) stay,
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Gates Foundation Awards Axmed $5M Grant to Boost Maternal and Child Health Procurement in Africa
What You Should Know:
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $5M grant to Axmed, a healthcare technology company focused on transforming how lifesaving medicines are procured across Growth Markets.
- The grant, announced on May 21, 2025, during a high-level roundtable alongside the 78th World Health Assembly, will be deployed as a matching fund to enhance the procurement of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) commodities in Sub-Saharan Africa through
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Frame and Labcorp Expands Access to Fertility Testing and Care
What You Should Know:
- Frame, the collaborative care platform transforming access to reproductive and fertility care, announced a strategic collaboration with Labcorp, a global leader in innovative and comprehensive laboratory services.
- The partnership will enable patients using Frame's platform to seamlessly access Labcorp's extensive suite of fertility testing services, including crucial hormone and genetic testing.
Bridging the Gap in Early-Stage Fertility
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Illinois ”Healthy Baby” Pilot: Google & Drive Health Unite for Maternal Health
What You Should Know:
- To address healthcare gaps and improve maternal health outcomes, Drive Health and Google Public Sector today announced a partnership with the State of Illinois to launch Healthy Baby, a pilot program in rural Cook County that provides Google Pixel phones, Fitbit devices, and Google Cloud technologies to expectant mothers that enable access to Drive Health’s AI-powered Nurse Avery.
- The United States is facing a maternal healthcare crisis, particularly in rural and
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FDA Approves Teal Wand™: The First At-Home Self-Collection Device for Cervical Cancer Screening in the U.S.
What You Should Know:
- Teal Health®, a women's health company dedicated to eliminating cervical cancer, today announced a landmark achievement: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Teal Wand™, marking it as the first and only at-home self-collection device for cervical cancer screening in the United States.
- The FDA approval paves the way for women to have a new, convenient, and effective option for what is commonly known as the Pap smear,
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