Too few people get diagnosed and treated for postpartum depression. But a blood test could change that Postpartum depression ...

A test for abnormal fetal chromosomes can also detect maternal cancers—and physicians are struggling to incorporate that ...

That article discussed new methods of noninvasive prenatal testing that relied on measurements of DNA in fetal cells present in the mother’s blood. The report said that the low prevalence of fetal ...

A new blood test has an 80% accuracy in predicting preterm ... The condition, which results in over 70,000 maternal deaths and 500,000 fetal deaths each year worldwide, has long been hard to ...

The Prenatal Screening Program. Maternal Serum Markers of Fetal Abnormalities: Progress in Prenatal Screening. MedGenMed 1(1), 1999. [formerly published in Medscape Women's Health eJournal 1(4 ...

It is essential for health care professionals to routinely screen pregnant and postpartum women for depression and anxiety, address modifiable risk factors and consider behavioral and ...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common maternal condition defined as the onset of hyperglycemia during pregnancy due ...

The 3 MoM values, together with maternal age, are then used to calculate the risk for T21 or 18, and the AFP MoM is used for NTD. The Prenatal Screening Program is part of the GEM (Genes ...