๐Ÿ”—๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ ยท ๐–๐ž๐ž๐ค ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฐ

๐Ÿ”—๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ ยท ๐–๐ž๐ž๐ค ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฐ

Women are measured by motherhood first.

๐—š๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—จ๐—ฝ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€

๐ŸŒ ๐—ช๐—›๐—ข: ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป'๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜๐—ต ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ

WHO Europe: over 3,500 women died of maternal causes in 2018-2022; mortality has stagnated since 2013, rising in the east and north. It wants women measured across the whole lifespan.

โ†’who.int/europe/news/item/18-08-2026-more-than-a-mother--a-deep-dive-into-women-s-health-and-mortality 

๐Ÿงฌ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜: ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ'๐˜€ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€

A Lancet viewpoint argues women's health research still defaults to reproduction, leaving precision medicine unrealised for most of women's lives. Cites the WEF's $1 trillion gap estimate.

โ†’thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)01416-9/fulltext 

๐Ÿ“ฑ A๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฎ ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿต ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜€

Built by two women in Riga with no outside funding, anna maps smartwatch data to the menopausal transition, now live across 39 UK and European markets.

โ†’femtechworld.co.uk/opinion/anna-perimenopause-app-launches-across-39-markets/ 

๐Ÿค– ๐—ž๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ-๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ

Kiara Health secured an undisclosed pre-seed round from Coyote Ventures for AI that turns fragmented reproductive data into personalised fertility recommendations.

โ†’femtechinsider.com/kiara-health-secures-pre-seed-funding-for-personalized-fertility-platform/ 

โš–๏ธ ๐—œ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜๐—ต ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€

A US judge ruled Idaho's near-total abortion ban unconstitutional for failing to exempt care needed to preserve a woman's health, not only her life.

โ†’reuters.com/legal/government/idaho-must-allow-abortions-preserve-womens-health-us-judge-rules-2026-08-14/ 

๐Ÿง ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฑ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜

WHO wants women measured beyond maternal outcomes; the Lancet wants medicine to do the same; Idaho's ruling turned on a woman's health counting beyond pregnancy. It's the health mirror of the "maternal wall": women leaders judged as mothers first, operators second. Closing the gap means resetting the default.

๐Ÿ†๐—ข๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ

Tour of Britain Women runs 19-23 August, one of the UK's biggest women's cycling races.

โ†’womeninsport.org/news/summer-of-womens-sport-2026-calendar-dates-times-and-where-to-watch/ 

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ผ๐˜๐˜€

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