Amniocentesis is a test where a small amount of your amniotic fluid is taken for testing. This fluid not only protects your baby but also carries important information about their health. While the ...

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 ...

Prenatal genetic testing determines if an offspring is at risk of genetic or hereditary conditions. This can inform the parents of decisions such as keeping the child or not or adjusting to help them ...

Are there anomalies on the ultrasound? If anomalies exist, will the fetus be able to survive them in the long term? If the fetus is diagnosed with a non-life-threatening disorder (e.g., Down syndrome) ...

Of the 140 million babies born worldwide each year, 6-8% are at risk for hereditary genetic diseases. Amniocentesis is considered the gold standard for detecting fetal genetic risks with high accuracy ...

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.

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 ...

(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 ...

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) on pregnant women to detect the risk of a fetus having rare genetic abnormalities may often be wrong, according to recent reports. These tests, according to ...

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 ...