Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) on pregnant women to detect the risk of a fetus having rare genetic abnormalities may often be wrong, according to recent reports. These tests, according to ...

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Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning the public of the risk of false results, inappropriate use and inappropriate interpretation of results with non-invasive prenatal screening ...

Two of the world's largest professional societies of human geneticists have issued a joint position statement on the promise and challenges of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a new procedure to ...

A novel study has analyzed the cost-effectiveness of different Down syndrome (DS) screening strategies. The result confirms that noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) outperforms second-trimester serum ...

Nearly 100 Republican legislators are demanding answers from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the nature and validity of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Sen.

Alessandro Marcon works at the University of Alberta's Health Law Institute, which has received funding related to this project from Genome Canada, Genome Alberta, and CIHR. Vardit Ravitsky receives ...

Stephanie Nicklow hopes to raise awareness and share her son's health journey with the world ...

Pregnant women can have prenatal testing performed during their pregnancies to determine whether or not their baby could have certain disorders. Two types of tests are chorionic villus sampling (CVS) ...

With the PrenaTest®, Europe’s first non-invasive prenatal test for the determination of the most common chromosomal disorders in unborn children, launched in 2012, LifeCodexx has been changing ...