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A groundbreaking digital perinatal mental health pilot for Black and ethnically minoritised women has helped women access support faster, complete therapy at higher rates, and recover more successfully than national averages. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/Sc3XbgM #MaternalMentalHealth #WomensHealth #PerinatalHealth #HealthInequalities #MentalHealth

Only one per cent of women can name all five gynaecological cancers, new research suggests, as 21 women in the UK die every day. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/4HyBgqb #GynaecologicalCancer #WomensHealth #CancerAwareness #CervicalScreening #Diagnosis

Poor sleep may signal higher Alzheimer’s risk in older women with greater genetic risk, a study suggests. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/ikZCKwo #Alzheimers #SleepHealth #WomensHealth #BrainHealth #Research

AI could transform ovarian care by personalising cancer and fertility treatment, but more clinical validation is needed before routine use. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/m0nYCHO #AI #OvarianCancer #Fertility #WomensHealth #Femtech

Ki-67, a protein used to measure tumour growth, may also help prevent chromosome errors that drive cancer, a study suggests. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/OPvi4y2 #CancerResearch #BreastCancer #Genomics #MedicalResearch #Femtech

Abdominal obesity may lead to worse menopause symptoms, including forgetfulness, irritability and night sweats, a new study suggests. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/Erc7wF0 #Menopause #Obesity #WomensHealth #HealthyAgeing #Wellness

Perimenopause may offer a key window to spot heart disease risk earlier, with women in the transition twice as likely to have low heart health scores. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/k1avwpj #Perimenopause #HeartHealth #Menopause #WomensHealth #CardiovascularDisease

Women over 40 are seeking raves for mental and physical wellbeing, with a study suggesting the benefits go beyond nightlife. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/F5ExzqG #MentalHealth #Wellness #WomenOver40 #MusicTherapy #WomensHealth

Osteoporosis may raise the risk of death in postmenopausal women by up to 47 per cent, a new study suggests. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/vUakcUI #Osteoporosis #Menopause #BoneHealth #WomensHealth #HealthyAgeing

After more than a decade of campaigning, doctors around the world have agreed to rename PCOS. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/x6ULM7h #PCOS #HormonalHealth #WomensHealth #PMOS #Femtech

Housing, work and fertility pressures are stopping many Britons growing the families they want, new research suggests. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/5xwP3nR #Fertility #FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealth #MentalHealth #Femtech

A common cholesterol drug could help weaken a fluid shield that helps ovarian cancer tumours survive, early lab findings suggest. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/XYzaYEK #OvarianCancer #CancerResearch #WomensHealth #MedicalResearch #Femtech

Women As One is proud to have contributed to the development of the RESIL-Card tool as an active Advisory Board member, ensuring that gender equity and the perspectives of women cardiologists were embedded from the outset. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/NsCNIdE #CardiovascularHealth #WomensHealth #HealthSystems #CrisisPreparedness #Femtech

A new European menopause study will examine why women's hearts may become more vulnerable after menopause. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/9qGevg9 #Menopause #CardiovascularHealth #WomensHealth #MedicalResearch #Femtech

Tampons could one day offer a non-invasive way to track MS nerve damage, early findings suggest. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/cbU1xVC #MultipleSclerosis #Neurology #Femtech #Biomarkers #WomensHealth

Artera has won FDA clearance for ArteraAI Breast, its breast cancer platform for patients with early-stage HR-positive, HER2-negative invasive breast cancer. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/mNdJ0nL #BreastCancer #AIHealthcare #DigitalPathology #PrecisionMedicine #Femtech

This summer, WUKA and triple Olympian Hannah Miley MBE are bringing their Period-Positive Pool Party to London Aquatics Centre with one clear mission: to prove that periods should never keep anyone out of the water 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/QBU4cKe #PeriodPositive #AdolescentHealth #WomensHealth #Swimming #Femtech

At the 2026 Alliance Annual Conference, Women As One presented a poster that asked a powerful question: What if continuing professional development (CPD) did more than teach clinical knowledge— and instead helped shape the future of the workforce itself? 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/zpVe8gB #WomenInCardiology #WomensHealth #CPD #HealthcareLeadership #Equity

What the PatientsLikeMe conversation data is telling us about the mental health burden of chronic illness, and the kind of care infrastructure that addresses it 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/YkKMysj #MentalHealth #ChronicIllness #PatientSupport #DigitalHealth #Femtech

Women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ scientists were hit hardest by NIH grant terminations, a survey of nearly 1,000 US researchers has found. 🔗 Full story: buff.ly/UDoGXRl #NIH #ResearchFunding #WomenInScience #HealthEquity #WomensHealth