by Bruce Brown | November 1, 2018 | General News, Health
Pharmaceutical and mechanical methods for avoiding pregnancy have the highest effectiveness rates. New approaches that claim equivalent or better performance often use spotty science or dubious measurement reporting. We raised a flag when the FDA recently cleared a...
by Bruce Brown | February 7, 2018 | General News, Health
Last year, after CES 2017, Health Tech Insider Editor, Publisher, and Chief of Everything Else Alfred Poor wrote about health tech that stays out of the way but earns its keep with substantiated results. In the article about proven clinically accurate health tech that...
by Bruce Brown | July 5, 2017 | General News, Health
Women who are trying to get pregnant often find it difficult to determine their fertility windows. Tracking basal body temperature (BBT) is a common method of predicting ovulation. The traditional way to track cycles by taking the woman’s temperature when she...
by Bruce Brown | May 17, 2017 | General News, Health
The Ava Fertility Tracker wristband and mobile app combination is adding pregnancy monitoring features to the mobile app. We originally wrote about Ava in July 2016. Ava’s accuracy in detecting the 5.3 most fertile days of a woman’s cycle was...
by Alfred Poor | May 17, 2017 | General News, Health
Many couples across the U.S. and around the world want to have children but they struggle with getting pregnant. There are many products that purport to detect peak fertility for prospective mothers, but many — such as basal temperature systems — are...