Hospital Reports Natural Cycles Contraceptive App To Regulator After 37 Unwanted Pregnancies
A Swedish hospital has filed a formal complaint about the ‘contraceptive app’ Natural Cycles after it was blamed for 37 unwanted pregnancies … The app aims to track fertility cycles to work out when there is most and least risk of pregnancy. Effectively, a higher-tech form of the calendar or rhythm method – a notoriously unreliable method of contraception. Natural Cycles claimed that its inclusion of additional data, like a woman’s temperature measured by a supplied thermometer, made it more reliable, and it was this which made it the first such app to be officially certified as a medical device by the European Union....