Natural Cycles: The Only FDA-Cleared Digital Contraceptive App
In 2018, the FDA did something it had never done before: it cleared a smartphone app as a method of contraception. The decision was controversial, the science behind it was…
Clearblue Advanced Digital Ovulation Predictor Kit: Hormone-Based Fertile Window Detection
The biological window for conception is remarkably narrow, roughly six days per month, and most women cannot reliably identify when it opens. A urinary hormone test that detects both estrogen…
The Daily Rounds: Longevity & Health Care Brief | April 9, 2026
🧬 Aging Reframed as Coordination Failure: Scientists at the World Longevity Congress are shifting from single-target anti-aging interventions toward restoring coordination across the body's biological systems. ❤️ Long COVID and the Heart: A 1.2-million-person Swedish study confirms long COVID significantly raises cardiovascular disease risk, including in younger non-hospitalized adults, with women facing more than double the risk. 🤖 AI Hits a Clinical Milestone: With 173 AI-discovered drugs now in clinical trials and Insilico's AI-designed pulmonary fibrosis drug showing Phase IIa efficacy, generative AI in medicine has arrived at clinical scale. 🦠 Fasting for Gut Health: Just five days per month of low-calorie plant-based eating reduced gut inflammation and achieved clinical response in nearly 70% of Crohn's disease patients in a Nature Medicine randomized trial. 😴 Circadian Health and Cancer: New ACS-funded research at Fred Hutch will investigate whether night-shift-driven solar jet lag is a driver of liver cancer, reinforcing circadian alignment as a cancer prevention frontier.
Ava Fertility Bracelet: FDA-Cleared Wearable for Fertile Window Detection
A clinical study of 237 women found that a wearable bracelet tracking five physiological signals could detect the fertile window with 90% accuracy. That bracelet became a commercial product, and…
Withings Thermo Smart Thermometer: FDA-Cleared Temporal Artery Temperature Monitoring
Fever is the oldest vital sign humans have measured, yet most households still rely on technology that has barely changed in a century. A connected thermometer asks whether temperature data,…
Airthings Wave Plus: Radon and Indoor Air Quality Monitor for Long-Term Health
Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. It is colorless, odorless, and present in roughly one in fifteen American homes at levels the EPA…
IQAir AirVisual Pro: Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality Intelligence Platform
The air outside your window and the air inside your home tell different stories about your health. Most monitors can only read one of them. In 2021, the World Health…
Awair Element Air Quality Monitor: Indoor PM2.5, CO2, and VOC Tracking for Health
You spend roughly 90% of your life indoors, breathing air you cannot see and rarely measure. The pollutants in that air may be quietly accelerating the very diseases you are…
Gatorade Gx Sweat Patch: Affordable Sweat Sodium Profiling for Athletes
Professional sports teams have spent thousands testing athletes’ sweat composition in labs. A $25 patch and your phone camera now approximate the same insight. For decades, the most sophisticated sweat…
Nix Biosensors Sweat Patch: Real-Time Hydration and Electrolyte Monitoring
Dehydration degrades athletic performance before you feel thirsty, and sweat composition varies so widely between individuals that generic hydration advice may be worse than none at all. A growing body…
