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Samphire Neuroscience is building a brain stimulating wearable for period pain
It's a horrible truth that many women simply endure period pain every month -- perhaps relying on painkillers or a hot water bottle to relieve stomach UK medtech startup Samphire Neuroscience has developed a head-mounted "therapeutic" wearable that applies a non-invasive, low electrical current type of brain stimulation to target period pain and PMS.
Here Samphire points, by way of validated commercial example, to a fellow neuro tech UK startup as a bit of a pioneer: Flow Neuroscience — which already sells a head-mounted device it claims is clinically proven as more effective for treating depression than antidepressants. Samphire is also drawing on work done by two research labs focused on brain stimulation and women’s health — one in Australia and one in Brazil — which Radytė explains had looked, separately, at menstrual pain and PMDD, and found strong effects for using this type of technology in both cases. As femtech startups often do, Radytė points to how the bulk of medical research has failed to pay proper attention to sex difference, including — in this period-focused context — not considering how hormonal changes in women could lead to distinct responses to treatments.
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