Gynaecology and Technology

Countries with a lower gender divide on social networking site Facebook are more rapidly approaching gender equality in economic terms. This is according to a new study by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. The researchers developed a tool...

Smartphone apps used to track menstrual cycles are often disappointing to users, according to a new study conducted by the University of Washington (UW), US. The researchers said that many apps display a lack of accuracy, assumptions about sexual identity and partners, and “an emphasis on...

First Response has launched the world's first Bluetooth-enabled pregnancy testing kit, linking the process with women's smartphones in an innovative move. The Pregnancy PRO Digital Pregnancy Test was previewed at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year and has recently been...

Unicef has begun using drones to deliver HIV tests to hard-to-reach communities in Malawi. In conjunction with the country's government, the charity has been using unmanned aerial vehicles to drop tests for the disease across the country in an attempt to significantly improve the time it takes...

A new smartphone app has the ability to detect second-time mothers' risk of giving birth prematurely, according to UK doctors. Researchers from Kings College London have developed the QUIPP app, which takes into account a variety of factors to determine how likely it is that a woman will...

A 'super condom' boasting anti-HIV properties could be on sale to the public as soon as next year, scientists have claimed. The contraceptive, developed by a team from the Texas A&M Health Science Center, USA, is made from an elastic polymer called hydrogel and contains plant-based...

A new drug has been found to cure hepatitis C in patients also infected with HIV . Medication developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb known as daclatasvir, combined with Gilead Sciences' Savaldi, has been identified as curing hepatitis C in 97 per cent of patients who had been diagnosed with HIV. The...

Researchers have developed a new vaccine that could completely protect people against HIV . A team at the Scripps Research Institute in California, in the US, adopted a different approach when it came to developing this latest vaccine. Normally vaccines are designed to train the immune system to...

A revolutionary smartphone app could diagnose HIV in a matter of minutes, according to researchers. Developed by a team at Columbia University, in the US, and researchers in Rwanda the software analyses blood samples taken by a finger-prick dongle and can provide results in just 15 minutes. Once...

Countries in the Asia-Pacific region have signed up to a commitment of ending the AIDS epidemic in the next 15 years. The Asia-Pacific Intergovernmental Meeting on HIV and AIDS, organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), outlined a number of...