Digital menstrual tracking risks creating more harm than benefit
Publication information:
Lee, Katharine M. N., Marina DiMarco, Madeleine Pape, Meredith Reiches, Patricia Homan, Sheree Bekker, Margo Mountjoy, and Sarah S. Richardson. “Digital Menstrual Tracking Risks Creating More Harm Than Benefit”. The BMJ 394 (2026).
Abstract
Katharine Lee and colleagues argue that digital menstrual tracking and cycle syncing pose risks to health as well as privacy and call for greater scrutiny of apps.