Smartphone period trackers or fertility apps are a daily part of many women's lives as a tool to monitor their menstrual cycle or help them plan or prevent pregnancy. Such apps were downloaded at ...

Boston-based fertilty tracker company Ovatemp launched its app today. The app is designed to help women conceive naturally, based on a process called Fertility Awareness Method (FAM). So far Ovatemp ...

You might not want to depend on your smartphone app alone to help you avoid or achieve pregnancy, say the authors of a new study. A review of nearly 100 fertility awareness apps finds that most don't ...

Five years ago, Lacey Murga and her husband decided they wanted to have a baby. But Murga’s menstrual cycle had always been irregular — she had a hard time figuring out the best time to try to ...

Fertility benefit programs have developed to serve a wider range of workplace needs and demographics, and digital health provider Maven Clinic has launched a new product that pushes those advancements ...

A growing share of women who seek abortions were using period-tracking apps or other fertility awareness methods when they got pregnant, according to a new study from England and Wales. Fertility ...

An app designed to track fertility and prevent pregnancy in women 18 and older is the first to win US Food and Drug Administration approval to be marketed as a contraceptive, the agency announced ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. The FEMM Period ...

Fertility awareness may be effective for birth control if people use it correctly and consistently, particularly if they use a combination of methods. Fertility awareness is a method for recognizing ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After 10 months of unsuccessfully trying for a baby, I was ...

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 ...