Some women rush to their doctor just days after getting a positive pregnant test, but Dr. L. Joy Baker said she often sees patients for the first time just weeks or even days before they give birth.

Although non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is widely used to detect fetal abnormalities, the results of NIPT vary by population, and data for the screening efficiency of NIPT positive predictive ...

EXPERTS TO HELP YOU CHOOSE THE RIGHT VITAMIN FOR YOU. FROM BABY GEAR TO BIRTH PLANS, PREPARING FOR A BABY INVOLVES MAKING COUNTLESS DECISIONS. FOR PAULA MACHADO. THE VERY FIRST WAS CHOOSING A PRENATAL ...

Background— Maternal hypercholesterolemia during pregnancy is associated with markedly enhanced fatty streak formation in human fetal aortas and accelerated progression of atherosclerosis in ...

Some prenatal vitamins contain a "concerning" amount of arsenic, lead or cadmium, while others don't have key nutrients needed for a healthy pregnancy, a new study finds. Getty Images Some prenatal ...

The first study of the use of microarray patches to vaccinate children has shown that the method is safe and induces strong immune responses. The phase 1/2 randomized trial compared results from the ...

Sensitivity: 97.4% Specificity: 100% Positive Predictive Value (PPV): 100% Negative Predictive Value (NPV): 99.4% For 8 copy number variants (CNVs) detected by CMA, OGM defined their location and ...

Key findings from prospective evaluation of 200 prenatal samples: For 8 copy number variants (CNVs) detected by CMA, OGM defined their location and orientation and revealed that they were 6 tandem ...