A new smartphone app offers to prescribe birth control without seeing a doctor in person. It's called Nurx and it's now available in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Once you download the app, the patient ...

The company behind the controversial app launched a wristband that tracks your temperature, heart rate, and movement while you sleep.

Planned Parenthood has launched a new app, called Spot On, that helps users track their period and manage their birth control. Spot On allows users to track their flow; monitor their symptoms, like ...

The FDA approved marketing of the direct-to-consumer smartphone app Natural Cycles as a method of contraception to prevent pregnancy Aug. 10. The app, developed by the Swedish company Natural Cycles ...

San Francisco-based Nurx, a telehealth company that offers prescriptions for birth control and HIV-prevention medication Truvada through an app, has raised $5.3 million in Series A funding in a round ...

Elina Berglund, the co-founder and co-CEO of Natural Cycles, was user zero for the first-ever FDA-cleared birth control app. Now she’s building for the next phase of her life—and the lives of millions ...

Natural Cycles, a birth control app, hasn’t exactly had the best press so far—it’s currently under investigation in the U.K. and Sweden after 37 users made claims of unwanted pregnancies. But then, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “While on hormonal birth control I noticed so many changes that I didn’t like ...