Our team of maternal-fetal medicine specialists and prenatal genetic counselors have extensive training and experience in prenatal genetic testing. Providers throughout the Mountain West regularly ...

Immune activation in a pregnant woman can occur in response to metabolic diseases like obesity, infections in pregnancy, exposure to pollution and environmental toxins, or even stress and can have ...

WHEN NON-INVASIVE prenatal testing (NIPT) arrived in 2011, it transformed pregnancy. With a simple blood test, scientists could now sweep a mother’s bloodstream for scraps of placental DNA, uncovering ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Normally, parents who want to know the sex of their baby before it's born find out through ultrasound done in the second trimester. A blood test that can be done early in ...

It's a common condition involving hypertension with serious consequences when left untreated. A Dallas Ob-gyn explains why she thinks the test is a game-changer.

Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for fetal aneuploidy screening using cell-free DNA (cfDNA) can incidentally discover maternal cancers, according to a Dutch retrospective study. The analysis ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cell-free fetal antigen analyses had 100% consistency for 465 calls on antigens in which women were ...