The Natural Cycles app aims to prevent pregnancy by evaluating a woman’s daily temperature and menstruation data. The app — which uses this information to calculate which days a woman is at a high or ...

Contraception can be a charged topic for many reasons. It’s highly personal, of course. Frequently it’s political. And the stakes, should your method of choice fail, are obviously very high indeed.

In August, the F.D.A. announced that it had allowed a new form of contraception on the market: a mobile app called Natural Cycles. The app, which was designed by a Swedish particle physicist, asks its ...

Chances are, you’ve heard about the rhythm method - and chances are, you haven’t heard entirely good things. The contraception technique, which involves a heterosexual couple having sex based around ...