Why Sylvia Kang Created An At Home Women’s Health Monitoring Platform That Predicts Ovulation
After witnessing her friends having difficulty becoming pregnant, Sylvia Kang, cofounder and CEO of Mira, decided to leave her corporate job and use her biomedical degree to create a product that tracks women’s hormones and fertility cycles.
Ava vs Mira vs OvuSense: What’s the best ovulation tracker?
In this review, we’ll compare ovulation trackers by Ava, Mira and OvuSense to help you decide if a new, technology-enabled ovulation tracker can help you get pregnant.
Mira™ Helps Women and Their Partners Gain Control of Their Fertility by Knowing When the Time is Right for Conception
It’s heartbreaking when couples realize that getting pregnant isn’t as easy as they thought it would be. For most couples trying to conceive, the odds that a woman will become pregnant are 15% to 25% in any particular month. But about 10% of women in America have a...
How Sylvia Kang of Mira tackles the extreme work life balance of being a woman in STEM during COVID-19
No one ever expected 2020 to be like this. Many were panicking or not sure how to react. Managing my family members’ emotions was a challenge for me while running the company at the same time. I wanted to make sure my loved ones are calm but not in anxiety. We now...
“Focus on self-management.” With Penny Bauder & Sylvia Kang
As a part of my series about how women leaders in tech and STEM are addressing these new needs, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sylvia Kang.
Tracking Your Luteinizing Hormone To Better Predict Ovulation
For those trying to conceive, knowing when you ovulate is hugely important to be able to time intercourse and properly identify your fertile window. If you are tracking your menstrual cycle, you are probably looking at several different physical biomarkers of...
Access To Fertility Treatments Should Not Be A Privilege
Infertility, or the inability to conceive within six to 12 months of regular intercourse, is a condition that affects over 10% of the U.S. population. However, the science has advanced dramatically in the last 40 years, and now, thanks to the advanced reproductive...
Hormone Tracking and Fertility | 5 Keys to Pregnancy
A thorough understanding of hormone tracking and fertility is important when trying to conceive. Reproductive hormones tell you all you need to know when it comes to your fertility. Tracking your fertility hormones can give you essential information to help you...
Mira Fertility Tracker Review: The Best Tracker For PCOS?
I think you will agree with me when I say, the inability to predict when you are ovulating with PCOS can be frustrating. Irregular cycles are a symptom some women with PCOS suffer from and as someone who has suffered from them, I understand how annoying it can be! It...
The Fertility Boom
As both women and men take ownership of their reproductive health, reproductive assistance, once deemed a luxury, is becoming a crucial part of healthcare. In the past few years, what was once hushed about in doctors’ offices is now openly discussed. Fertility has...
6 Femtech Gadgets Making Family Planning Easier
Thanks to the rapid growth of the femtech industry, trying to conceive is easier and more convenient than ever. On the market, there are plenty of Bluetooth fertility thermometers and app-connected cycle trackers that use sophisticated algorithms to help women with...
14 Ways to Deal With the High Costs of Infertility (and 5 Things to Avoid)
Infertility is rarely discussed yet fairly common. According to statistics from FertilityIQ, it impacts one in eight Americans. That’s more than those with diabetes, breast cancer, or Alzheimer’s disease. Yet as prevalent as infertility is, insurance rarely provides...
Future forward: the cultural trends shaping tomorrow today
Brands such as Modern Fertility and Mira are making it easy for women to track fertility hormones at home, complete with savvy millennial-pink branding.
10 Apps Or Devices To Use When You’re Trying To Conceive
For any couple trying to conceive, it can be a scary and stressful situation. And being stressed can impact your ability to get pregnant, as well as your mindset and that of your husband or partner.
Filling the Fertility Gap: Startups Drive Research in Ignored Field
When Afton Vechery told her OB-GYN she wanted a fertility test, the doctor was puzzled. “Why would you want a fertility test if you’re not trying to get pregnant and you’re only 27?” she asked. Vechery wasn’t planning on having kids soon, but she still wanted to know...