WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prenatal blood test can be used to determine if an unborn baby has Down's syndrome without the small risk to the fetus posed by invasive testing methods such as amniocentesis, ...

The nuchal translucency screening is performed via ultrasound. Conception is often compared to a roll of the dice. You hope for a particular outcome but know that your success depends a great deal on ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Pregnant women worried about their babies' genetic health face a tough decision: get prenatal gene testing and risk miscarriage, or skip the tests and miss the chance to learn of ...

A disturbing report from The New York Times on the unreliability of prenatal blood testing for genetic abnormalities should do more than make us wish that the testing companies were better regulated.

(HealthDay News) — The introduction of combined first-trimester screening correlated with an increase in chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and a decrease in amniocentesis, while both CVS and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The mean maternal age at first birth has been increasing in the United States in recent years, from 24.9 years ...

TAMPA (FOX 13) - Every mother wants their newborn to be healthy, but not every pregnancy is risk-free. There is a new prenatal test helping to find abnormalities as early as nine weeks into pregnancy.

Many big changes take place in your body when you’re pregnant. Prenatal testing helps your healthcare provider keep track of how you and your baby are doing. If any issues come up, they can be ...

The new test can also be performed much earlier in pregnancy, say its developers Dr Ian Findlay and Mr Darryl Irwin of the Australian Genome Research Facility in Brisbane. It should open the ...

A new mass spectrometry technique could pave the way for prenatal diagnosis by a simple and safe test on a pregnant woman's blood, according to an author of a paper describing the technique published ...

Readers discuss an article about the many false positives, and whether the tests are faulty or misunderstood. To the Editor: In “Tests Predicting Rare Disorders in Fetuses Are Usually Wrong” (front ...