menstruation
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Apple Period-Tracking Data Powers Large New Study on Menstrual Health
A large study of women who use Apple products to track their periods might provide some insights about a common but still barely understood menstrual condition. On Monday, Harvard researchers released the latest preliminary update from their Apple Women’s Health Study. Among other things, they found that 12% of women in the study reported being…
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Why This Fertility App’s First Scientific Study Is So Exciting
Unless you’re a tech-savvy woman looking to get pregnant, you’ve probably never heard of Ava. Slim and discreet, it’s a wearable tracker that in tandem with its companion app monitors your heart rate, body temperature, and breathing while you sleep to predict when you’re ovulating. None of that is particularly exciting on its own —…
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This Bluetooth Tampon Is The Smartest Thing You Can Put In Your Vagina
Every single person with a vagina has had that horrifying moment: you look down, and there’s blood everywhere. It’s always annoying, it’s usually embarrassing and more than half the time it happens in front of the entire student body.
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Apple’s iOS 9 HealthKit Will Finally Keep Track Of Menstrual Cycles
The announcement took up just two seconds of the keynote address at yesterday’s Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference, but it seems that the iOS 9 update of HealthKit will finally add menstrual cycles to the enormous list of trackable data it can follow.