Personal health data from more than 485,000 women has been stolen after hackers accessed the IT systems of a cervical cancer screening programme in the Netherlands.
The incident occurred between 3 July and 6 July…
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– Teal Health®, a women’s health company dedicated to eliminating cervical cancer, today announced a landmark achievement: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Teal Wand™, marking it…
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A program to screen women for cervical cancer using AI has been launched in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.Community organisation Ho Chi Minh City Public Health Association (HPHA) partnered with listed Australian company TruScreen and…
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NHS England has launched a ‘ping and book’ pilot project which uses the NHS App to invite participants to their breast screening appointments.
Between December 2024 and February 2025, three breast screening offices (BSOs) in…
An admin error dating back to 2008 meant that 5,261 patients weren’t invited for routine screening when their details failed to reach the correct IT systems.
The issue occurred when GP practices did not fully…
Women’s Health company Teal Health announced it garnered an additional $10 million in seed funding to support the launch of the Teal Wand, an at-home self-collect cervical cancer screening device, which is currently under…
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What You Should Know:
– Teal Health, a women’s health company dedicated to eliminating cervical cancer, announced today it has raised an additional $10M in seed funding led by Emerson Collective and Forerunner, with continued…
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Women will be sent invitations for cancer screening via the NHS App as part of a new “ping and book” service, Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England has announced.
A service to alert women…
North Central London Integrated Care Board (ICB) has partnered with the Islington GP Federation and digital health firm SPRYT to pilot the use of WhatsApp combined with AI to streamline cervical cancer screening and…
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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has said it will take forward a UK National Screening Committee recommendation to increase the use of digital pathology to examine body tissue samples. The use…
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