Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nuchal translucency screening is performed via ultrasound. The nuchal translucency screening is performed via ultrasound.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Roche blood test to screen fetuses for Down syndrome worked far better than standard prenatal screening tests in younger, low-risk women, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA), a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing and precision medicine, today announced the launch of Fetal Focus, a noninvasive prenatal ...

The NIPT (noninvasive prenatal testing) is a genetic test performed on pregnant women, in order to detect fetal chromosomal aneuploidies. It is based upon the testing of cell-free fetal DNA (cf-fDNA) ...

Women are often juggling work, family, and social roles, leaving little time for their own health. The modern genetic and ...

This study and others like it that assess a prenatal cohort in a postmortem setting are the first step toward helping clinicians understand both the power and the problems with genomic testing when ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - It's a test that helps pregnant mothers avoid surprises. But some said the real shock arrived in the mail. Noninvasive prenatal testing or NIPT, is an emerging industry that ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These MRI images with arrows indicating cancer were made during a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and ...