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ScienceHealthBirth Control Apps Are Great If You Want to Get Pregnant
Earlier this month, popular period-tracking app Clue announced it had received FDA clearance for a digital birth control feature in its app. Now, per a Verge report, Natural Cycles, the other FDA-cleared birth control app, is pissed because of how the FDA granted that clearance, sparking some beef between the two apps. Meanwhile, I’m sitting … Continued
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Tech NewsApple Study Affirms That Women Do in Fact Have Cramps During Their Periods
Apple added period-tracking to the iOS Health app and launched a clinical study into women’s health back in 2019. Now, the Apple Women’s Health Study team has some preliminary data that affirms that, yes, there is an incredible variety of period symptoms suffered by menstruating people worldwide. The findings were from the first 10,000 participants … Continued
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Tech NewsApps Are Birth Control Now
Exhausted and disoriented, I arrive tempest-tossed on the shores of our dystopia to tell you the good news: Apps are birth control now. On Monday, the period-tracking app Clue announced that it had received clearance from the FDA to launch a digital birth control function that will use statistical modeling to closely track users’ menstrual … Continued
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ScienceHealthCautious Optimism as Scientists Grow Human Eggs From Immature Cells in the Lab
In a scientific first, researchers from the US and the UK have taken early-stage human egg cells and grown them to full maturity in the lab. It’s an important proof-of-concept that could eventually yield new infertility treatments for women. Growing egg cells to full maturity in the lab isn’t anything new. Scientists have already done … Continued
