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 ...

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 ...

Two professional societies have released comments on the use of cell-free fetal (cff) DNA noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to detect trisomies in low-risk pregnant women. The statements follow ...

Anti‑D immunoglobulin is produced from the pooled plasma donated by large numbers of D‑negative people who have had a transfusion of D‑positive red cells to stimulate the production of D antibodies.

When Charles Cantor and Dennis Lo flew to Pattaya, Thailand in late 2002 to attend a conference, neither man knew they would end up collaborating on a blood test that could one day reduce reliance on ...

What is genetic testing? It refers to medical testing to identify changes within chromosomes, genes or proteins encoded by these genes. The purpose is to confirm or exclude a genetic disorder, or to ...

Blood-filled test tubes hidden under clothing and in false-bottom suitcases led Chinese authorities to smuggling rings that shipped more than 100,000 blood samples from pregnant women for fetal sex ...

Eight studies reported the diagnostic accuracy of high-throughput NIPT for fetal RHD genotype, all of which were prospective studies carried out in European countries. Four studies were done in ...