Singapore may be technologically advanced in healthcare, however, there may be sections in the health system that have yet to catch up – including sexual health.
In this small island nation-state of nearly six million people, sexual and reproductive health remains a topic too sensitive and intimate to be discussed in the open.
Access to the internet and the general acceptability of telemedicine...
Pregnancy and postpartum care startup Ruth Health is closing its business after reflecting "on challenges ahead in a fragmented maternity care space where [it] failed to find scalable product market fit," the company's CEO said.
Ruth offered virtual pelvic floor physical therapy and lactation support, which could be accessed during pregnancy and after birth, as well as C-section recovery, which...
Midlife women’s health clinic Midi Health announced it has added a group of female investors to its oversubscribed $63 million Series B round via a $5 million Special Purpose Vehicle.
New investors include actors and producers Amy Schumer and Connie Britton, soccer star Brandi Chastain, fashion designer/entrepreneur Tory Burch, Phenomenal Media’s Meena Harris, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners...
Axena Health, which makes a digital therapeutic for women's pelvic health, has partnered with the direct-to-consumer telehealth company UpScriptHealth to offer consultation and treatment to women suffering from urinary incontinence symptoms.
Axena's Leva Pelvic Health System aids in pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT), which is a first-line treatment that can be completed at home.
The system is...
Oncology-focused digital therapeutics company Mika Health announced a partnership with pharma companies AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo for an initiative dubbed "UNITE" to provide digital therapeutics to women undergoing breast cancer treatments.
Mika Health's app gives cancer patients access to psychological support to reduce disease-related anxiety, depression and stress. Patients can track...
Telemedicine company Thirty Madison has partnered with behavioral telehealth company Talkspace to bring mental health offerings to Thirty Mason’s Nurx and Cove users and allow Talkspace users to access migraine treatment and women's healthcare.
Talkspace will now serve as the therapy partner for Nurx, which specializes in comprehensive care for women’s dermatology, reproductive health and sexual...
Israel-based Scopio Labs announced the FDA granted De Novo clearance for its Full-Field Bone Marrow Aspirate (FF-BMA) software that provides AI-enabled decision support tools for bone marrow analysis.
The FF-BMA application allows for bone marrow aspirate analysis. It combines full-field imaging and an AI-powered decision support system that allows hematopathologists to analyze bone marrow...
Midlife women’s health clinic Midi Health announced it secured $60 million in a Series B funding round led by Emerson Collective, bringing its total raise to $100 million.
GV (Google Ventures), who led the company's $25 million Series A round announced in September, participated in the round.
SemperVirens, Icon Ventures, Felicis, Gingerbread Capital, Steel Sky Ventures, Black Angel Group,...
AT&T will offer its more than 125,000 employees 24/7 access to women's health platform Maven Clinic's virtual fertility and family-building support services, including guidance around egg freezing, adoption, IVF, surrogacy snf preconception.
The New York-based digital reproductive health and family platform offers fertility and family planning services, pregnancy and postpartum care, and...
WellTheory, a virtual care platform for individuals with autoimmune diseases, announced its first employer partnership with Maven Clinic to offer the virtual women and family health provider's employees access to nutrition and lifestyle coaching from WellTheory.
WellTheory provides patients with two virtual visits per month and unlimited messaging with coaches specializing in autoimmune diseases...
