Advancing Maternal Health Outcomes With Preventative Care Solutions π€°π½; Regulatory Strategies and Considerations for Launching Women's Health and FemTech Products π; FemTech Expo Menopause ππ½ββοΈ
Connecting businesses health tech and femtech with opportunities to grow and succeed.
Happy Tuesday, everyone! βοΈ
A study published in June 2023 in the journal Pediatrics affirmed that fathers are an important factor in whether breastfeeding is successful and whether babies sleep in safe environments.
For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has conducted a survey of mothers as part of its Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), to identify risks to infants before, during, and after pregnancy. In recent years, many mothers completing this assessment have asked that it include fathers; now, a research team has launched the PRAMS for Dads. The initial survey included 250 fathers who were surveyed 2 to 6 months after the birth of their child. They were asked about both breastfeeding and safe sleep practices.
The study found that 86 percent of fathers reported that their infant attempted breastfeeding, yet only 63 percent reported that their infant was still breastfeeding at 8 weeks. The study also found that it seemed to matter whether fathers encouraged breastfeeding. This supports a previous finding that the fatherβs feelings about breastfeeding versus bottle-feeding was the primary reason that women chose to bottle-feed.
This is why, in November, we will be partnering with Philips to discuss all things maternal health, innovation, and preventative care solutions.
Join us on November 2nd to discuss how we can all contribute to Advancing Maternal Health Outcomes With Preventative Care Solutions, and learn from the companies that are paving the way for better maternal health. Philips and Groupe Mutuel will share their brand-new partnership and how it hopes to impact the lives of Swiss new parents in the coming year.
This webinar is FREE to join for everyone.
About our partners
ββAt Philips, their purpose is to improve peopleβs health and well-being through meaningful innovation. They aim to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities. As a technology company, with over 130 years of experience, Philips β and its brand licensees β innovate for people with one consistent belief: thereβs always a way to make life better. At Philips, their innovations are driven by consumer and customer needs. Helping people to live healthy lives and prevent disease. Giving consumers and clinicians the tools, they need for preventative healthcare and supporting them with personalized treatment, products, services, and solutions. In Personal health, they have launched Dental, Pregnancy, and Womenβs health solutions, working closely with healthcare providers in the US and Europe.
HAPPENING THIS THURSDAY! ππ½
Together with a leading law firm Covington and Burling, we are bringing you three virtual workshops to equip you with the right legal knowledge to make your womenβs health and femtech startups a success. Join us for a series of dynamic and informative sessions that will educate and answer your legal questions.
This Thursday, we will be covering the topic of Regulatory Strategies and Considerations for Launching Women's Health and FemTech Products, which session will be delivered by Sarah Cowlishaw and Pam Forrest.
In this session, Sarah and Pam will cover:Β
(Potential) product categories for Women's Health/FemTech products
Jurisdictional approaches to Women's Health/FemTech regulation
Developing a premarket strategy for the U.S. and EU/UK
Key differences between U.S. and EU/UK medical device and diagnostic landscape
Regulatory developments for digital health products
About Covington
Covington & Burling LLP (Covington) is a pre-eminent international law firm with more than 1,300 attorneys and advisors and offices in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Washington, Shanghai, and Seoul. They are known for the high quality of their work, in-depth knowledge of key industries, sophistication in complex corporate, regulatory, advisory, and contentious matters, deep loyalty to clients, and commitment to the highest professional and ethical standards. They are known for creating novel solutions to their clientβs toughest problems, successfully trying their toughest cases, and delivering commercially practical advice of the highest quality. Covington is also known for being a leader in the Life Sciences sector and has a dedicated Digital Health team that offers unsurpassed breadth and depth of expertise and experience concerning the legal, regulatory, and policy issues that affect digital health products and services.
HAPPENING NEXT WEEK! π₯
This month, our team at WoW is continuing with our annual program - FemTech Expo - a global platform and program of virtual events for innovators in the healthcare and womenβs health industry.
π This monthβs topic is - Menopause and Aging Tech, the virtual event is taking place next Wednesday, 18 October, 6pm-8pm BST, and you will be able to hear from 10 innovative companies in these industries! We will be announcing the full list of companies and the agenda next Monday.
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