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Second-trimester ultrasound receipt mediates a considerable portion of the association between public insurance and prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease (CHD), according to a study published online Sept. 23 in Prenatal ...
Oct 8, 2024
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Patients insured by Medicaid are less likely to get prenatal diagnosis of heart defects than those with private insurance, and this disparity can be partly attributed to lower rates of 20-week ultrasound in pregnant people ...
Sep 23, 2024
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In Utah, more of Dr. Cara Heuser's maternal-fetal medicine patients are requesting early ultrasounds, hoping to detect serious problems in time to choose whether to continue the pregnancy or have an abortion.
Feb 12, 2024
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A team of investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a non-invasive genetic test that can screen the blood of pregnant ...
Nov 22, 2023
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A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky's Human Development Institute (HDI) is improving our understanding of how biases experienced during prenatal screenings and diagnoses of Down syndrome can have a lasting ...
Sep 12, 2023
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A study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago has shown that prenatal diagnosis, or diagnosis before a baby is born, is associated with earlier surgery for babies with congenital heart defects, the most ...
Aug 4, 2023
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Pregnant patients in El Salvador, who, under the nation's abortion ban, had no choice but to carry fetuses with severe malformations to term, experienced high rates of maternal morbidity, according to new research by Harvard ...
Jan 26, 2023
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A clinical research team from the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has used amniotic fluid cells obtained during 16-24 weeks of pregnancy as a novel sample type for RNA-sequencing in prenatal diagnosis to help more families ...
Dec 29, 2022
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Prenatal diagnostic examinations provide information about possible anomalies, hereditary diseases and malformations of the fetus long before birth. However, the procedures are not without risks. The Austrian Institute for ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Down syndrome, also known as Trisomy 21, is the most common chromosomal abnormality causing developmental delay and intellectual disability, and it can be identified in utero. Many pregnant women seek to determine whether ...
Jul 12, 2022
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