Health and Fitness

FDA Allows Marketing of First Direct-to-Consumer App for Contraceptive Use to Prevent Pregnancy

Natural Cycles Birth Control App
(Source: Natural Cycles)
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—August 10, 2018
Contact: Deborah Kotz

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today permitted marketing of the first mobile medical application (app) that can be used as a method of contraception to prevent pregnancy. The app, called Natural Cycles, contains an algorithm that calculates the days of the month a woman is likely to be fertile based on daily body temperature readings and menstrual cycle information, a method of contraception…

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