Pregnancy blood tests are over 99% accurate at detecting hCG, a hormone that rises after conception. False negatives can occur if the test is taken too early, so timing is important. Blood tests can ...

When you’re expecting a baby, you hope nothing goes wrong. But at least one in 20 people who are pregnant develop a scary complication called preeclampsia, a high blood pressure disorder that kills 70 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A liquid biopsy of maternal plasma cell-free RNA predicted early- and late-onset preeclampsia. A researcher told ...

What Vanessa Drummond, 27, initially thought was the beginning of a new chapter turned out to be something completely unexpected: a rare condition known as Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD). It ...

Leiden researchers have found clues to why a rare pregnancy disorder is mild in some babies but life-threatening in others. Their discovery opens the door to a test that could identify severe cases ...

It’s not uncommon to be anemic during pregnancy, but that doesn’t mean you should ignore it – supplements can help (and may ...

Diagnosing endometriosis could soon be much easier thanks to a new at home-test that can detect a biomarker for the disease in period blood. The pregnancy-like test created by researchers at the ...