(HealthDay News) – Screening for maternal hypothyroidism, and treatment of women with positive results, is not associated with improved IQ in offspring at age 3, according to a study published in the ...

Medical scientists have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to incorporate DNA analysis into antenatal screening for three serious chromosome disorders, including Down's syndrome, in a ...

Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, today announced the launch of EDEN, a large, multi-center prospective study designed to evaluate the company’s non ...

Gender reveal parties are best known as celebrations involving pink and blue, cake and confetti, and the occasional wildfire. Along with being social media hits, gender reveals are a testament to how ...

Experts say early screening and vaccination can prevent miscarriage, birth defects and lifelong disability. Here's why ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Hundreds of parents talked with us about their prenatal ...

The technology underpinning the development of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) based on cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) is advancing rapidly and the promise of accurately detecting aneuploidies and ...

For over four decades, it has been possible to offer prenatal diagnostic testing for fetal abnormalities. Prenatal testing is now available for a wide range of monogenic disorders as well as ...

Transmission of infections with HIV, hepatitis B, syphilis or rubella from mother to child before and during birth as well as in infancy still occur across Europe -- despite existing prevention ...

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 ...