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Attended this vibrent event, whbeyond.com bringing femtech entrepreneurs, experts, govt officials & investors from Japan and abroad. Many use direct-to-consumer testing kits esp hormones. real-time hormone monitoring device; wearables; EHR from patients/hospitals; PGT-A etc. Lots to take in!
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Japanese Femtech players map 2024. Much more focusing on fertility, menopause etc than before.
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An interesting and important experiment about how the intimate SRH data collected in the popular period trackers are compliant with the UK GDPR. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
04.02.2026 03:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"The FemTech market was valued at approximately $39 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $97 billion by 2030"
04.02.2026 03:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Great to see this Contraception Special Issue on the Emergence of "FemTech" within the Sexual and Reproductive Health Landscape - Contraception www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S001...
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Happy Halloween ๐ ๐ป ๐
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โeverything was relative โ there was no absolute standard of how things worked: "The key is not necessarily feeling completely comfortable, but understanding why these differences exist."
www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
Kicking off London Universities Population Seminars for the new academic year!
Join us Oct 28 in person (LSE, KSW.G.01) or online to hear from Prof Karen Glaser (KCL) on mental & physical health changes among adults aged 50-69 in England.
Full schedule & sign up:
sites.google.com/view/londonp...
โRecords will always fallโbut when they fall too fast, itโs a warning sign.
In sport, itโs exciting.
In climate, itโs alarming.โ
Latest special issue from Studies in Family planning
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17284465...
In a personal blog, Professor Francesco Checchi discusses the pressing situation in #Gaza amidst increased levels of starvation, and what this may mean for the future ๐
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Great example of where AI gets all the credit but the ACTUAL contribution (in this case, sperm for fertilisation) was from the human. AI helped. It helped a lot. But without the human, AI would be impotent. Good allegory here.
edition.cnn.com/2025/07/03/h...
โช๏ธ Almost 21,000 babies were born from IVF in 2023
โช๏ธ 11% of all UK births among women aged 40-44 are as a result of IVF.
โช๏ธ Births from donor treatment made up around 1 in 5 of all IVF and DI births in 2023, accounting for around 1 in 153 of all UK births, which is more than previous years.
1 in 32 babies now born after IVF in the UK - roughly one child in every classroom.
This year's HFEA report has more demographic perspectives:
See more findings ๐
tinyurl.com/47bmjm8k
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โIf it can seem at times that seagulls are taking over British towns, the fact is that their numbers arenโt rising at all โ they are falling sharply. In some traditional coastal nesting sites, the most recent national seabird census found, the populations have all but collapsedโ
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The temperature change in tokyo. showyourstripes.info/c/asia/japan...
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Menopause in low and middle-income countries:
โThe prevalences of vasomotor symptoms, joint pain and sexual concerns were comparable with high-income countries. However, data on the severity and burden of symptoms were scarceโ
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Indeed another excellent and timely piece to unpack the discourse behind it.
โThe lesson from abroad is clear: lasting change requires transforming the conditions that make parenthood feel untenable, not just offering token incentives.โ
Another excellent piece from a demographer, this time Stuart Gietel-Basten, on how "pronatalism is a dead end"
"Without addressing the root causes of low fertilityโinequality, instability, and the incompatibility of work and family lifeโtop-down efforts to โencourageโ childbearing will fail"
๐ถ #Farage wants a UK baby boom โ will it work? ๐ผ
Our Director @melindacmills.bsky.social says: โThrowing money at it doesnโt work.โ
Tax breaks โ baby boom.
Work hours, #housing, #childcare โ it takes an ecosystem.
๐ Telegraph article:
tinyurl.com/m6b9kbxm
#fertility #demography
Over the weekend, BBC Radio 4โs Any Questions programme - not typically a bastion of far-right values - included uncontested claims of how โlow birthrates are the biggest problem the UK facesโ. Worrying how quickly this view, rejected by experts in demography, is becoming mainstream
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Harmonising physical health measures in five national cohort studies webinar information with a photo of a little girl sitting on a sofa using an inhaler while reading a book.
๐ Join us for our latest free webinar on Thursday, 12 June 2025. Discover new harmonised asthma and diabetes measures, find out how you could use these data to compare 5 generations, and learn about other future health data releases.
๐ Register here: buff.ly/1TF4P00
Looking forward to connecting repro people this Friday! More information and free tickets from๐
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1 in 5 Births in Seoul Results from Infertility Procedure in august 2024! The Seoul Metropolitan Govt will support 25 treatments per couple.
The relative contribution of ART and the support is highest i have ever seen. ART babies are about 10% in Japan and Denmark
world.seoul.go.kr/seoul-expand...
Do you have expertise in: AI/big data OR robotics and automation in heallthcare/biological research OR Biostatistics and reviewing the quality of fertility research?
HFEA, UK national regulator of embryo research&fertility treatment, is looking to appoint one new external advisor w the expertise.
