What Doctors Don't Tell YouRather than simply relying on age, St. James hospital in Leeds has come up with a three part non invasive test that supposedly shows with 90 per cent accuracy the likelihood of having a baby with ...
Routine ultrasound screening of pregnant women does nothing to reduce the number of perinatal deaths, or improve pregnancy management or outcome, according to a study of 2600 women. ...
Yet another study confirms that routine ultrasound examination of normal women is of no benefit and the technique should be restricted to high-risk pregnancies.
Frequent prenatal ultrasound exposure could restrict fetal growth by a third. ...
Regular cervical examinations of pregnant women is useless in detecting a premature birth, despite recommendations from US and French health experts that they can help. ...
Latest sudies confirm that early amniocentesis the prenatal test for Down's syndrome can increase the risk of miscarriage and incidence of babies born with club foot. Earlier studies report a high ...
Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) the test supposed to detect cerebral palsy in the unborn child has been judged one of the great failures of high tech medicine. The test's false positive level re ...
Ultrasound scanning of pregnant women may cause their children to have delayed speech development, according to a Canadian study. ...
Older mothers are avoiding the prenatal tests of amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling even though they are free. ...
The prenatal miracle of ultrasound has taken another knock in one of the largest studies to be conducted on its efficacy. ...
