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It’s a new era for fertility tech

sudshr47 February 28, 2019 Startups

We explored venture capitalists’ latest bets on fertility and contraception tech, including Modern Fertility, Extend Fertility, Natural Cycles, Nurx, Clue and more.

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Natural Cycles contraception app told to clarify pregnancy risks

sudshr47 September 17, 2018

A multi-month investigation by Sweden’s Medical Products Agency into a number of unwanted pregnancies among users of ‘digital contraception’ app Natural Cycles has been closed after the startup agreed to clarify the risk of the product failing. But, on the self-reported data front, the agency said it was satisfied the number of unwanted pregnancies is in line […]

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Contraception app Natural Cycles’ Facebook ad banned for being misleading

sudshr47 August 29, 2018 Startups

Natural Cycles, a Swedish startup which touts its body temperature-based algorithmic method for tracking individual fertility as an effective alternative to hormonal birth control, has been wrapped by the UK advertising regulator which today upheld three complaints that an advert the company ran last year via Facebook’s platform was misleading. The regulator has banned Natural […]

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The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control

sudshr47 August 14, 2018 Startups

Don’t want to get pregnant? There’s a Food and Drug Administration approved app for that. The FDA has just given the go ahead for Swedish app Natural Cycles to market itself as a form of birth control in the U.S. Natural Cycles was already in use as a way to prevent pregnancy in certain European […]

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Contraception app still being probed by medical agency over unwanted pregnancies

sudshr47 January 30, 2018

Is there such a thing as bad publicity? It’s an interesting and contested question. To wit: Self styled ‘digital contraception’ app, Natural Cycles — which relies on a set of proprietary algorithms and women inputting their morning body temperature to predict fertility levels each day — has claimed that negative headlines generated after a clinic reported a number… Read More

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Clinic reports Natural Cycles app for 37 unwanted pregnancies since September

sudshr47 January 17, 2018

Swedish startup Natural Cycles, which offers an app-based product which it bills as a ‘digital contraceptive’, has been reported to Sweden’s Medical Products Agency (MPA) by a local hospital after it recorded 37 unwanted pregnancies among women who said they had been using the app as their contraception method. Read More

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Clinic reports Natural Cycles app for 37 unwanted pregnancies since September

sudshr47 January 17, 2018

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Natural Cycles gets $30M for its EU-certified “digital contraception”

sudshr47 November 9, 2017 Startups

European startup Natural Cycles is pushing to establish its EU-certified “digital contraceptive app” as a globally accepted contraception option — and compete with tried and tested options used by millions of couples worldwide. Read More