Washington, D.C. – More than half a million women around the world, including an estimated 50,000 in the United States, use natural family planning methods developed by Georgetown University Medical ...

You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes. Leslie Heyer, the founder and president of Cycle Technologies, reports that women using her CycleBeads ...

Will CycleBeads fill a need in the family planning marketplace? For some experts, there's no doubt. The introduction of any new method of family planning means that couples have more choices, said ...

The Standard Days Method (TM), a new natural method of family planning, is more than 95% effective at preventing pregnancy, according to an international study conducted by Georgetown University ...

Nairobi — Women in Kenya can now prevent pregnancy without side effects using a free smartphone app called CycleBeads®. The CycleBeads Android app helps a woman know which days she is fertile and ...

CycleBeads are the latest variation on one of the oldest methods of birth control: periodic abstinence, commonly known as the rhythm method. Of course, the old joke about people who use the rhythm ...

To help women who follow the Standard Days Method of family planning to know on which days pregnancy is likely or unlikely, the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University Medical ...

A scientifically-based family planning tool developed by researchers from Georgetown University's Institute for Reproductive Health, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), is now ...

A study in the journal Contraception reports that the Standard Days Method, a natural family planning method brings new women to family planning. More than half the women who selected the Standard ...

Family Health International official Caroline Mackenzie says they're excited about the public debate generated by CycleBeads for family planning. "Allow me to respond to the issue of men moving the ...