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Birth control apps show the contradictions in FDA device oversight
The FDA says two types of digital birth control are the same, but one company disagrees
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Digital birth control company Natural Cycles wasn’t happy with the news that the Food and Drug Administration cleared a second birth control app at the start of the month. The company, which was the first to get sign-off from the agency, says it’s glad to have the competition but it takes issue with the
way the FDA gave the new app, made by Clue, the okay.
The FDA can allow products to be sold and marketed in the US if they’re similar enough to something already available to consumers. In this case, the FDA is saying Clue is “substantially equivalent” to Natural Cycles similar enough to earn the agency’s green light. But Natural Cycles doesn’t agree. “I feel this is slightly concerning,” Natural Cycles CEO Elina Berglund told
Whatâs in Your Prenatal Vitamin?
Doctors recommend them before, during and even after a pregnancy. But regulation is spotty and finding the right pill can be hard.
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Published Feb. 3, 2021Updated Feb. 4, 2021
When I told my doctor that I was thinking of getting pregnant a few years ago, she advised me to start taking a prenatal vitamin right away. So I stopped by the grocery store on my way home and made for the supplement aisle. As I studied the array of options before me, I quickly grew overwhelmed.
I noticed that different brands contained slightly different concoctions of ingredients, with wildly different amounts in each. Each multivitamin extolled its benefits, but also bore the familiar disclaimer that its claims had ânot been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration,â which I found unsettling. Who, I wondered, was looking out for pregnant people?