Bengaluru: In a first for govt hospitals in the state, Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health (IGICH) has begun prenatal screening to provide parents.

The soon-to-be parents are counselled and told about the various pros and cons of having children with special needs. Dr ...

Okay, stop sniggering. For all those who slept through double biology lessons (and you'd be surprised how many of us there are), here's a quick recap of the nuts and bolts of getting pregnant.

We reanalyzed publically available microarray data sets to determine differentially expressed genes (DEG), which increase expression in LSE (predecidualization) and during endometrial maturation after ...

OSAKA -- Interest in prenatal testing to check on the condition of the fetus during pregnancy is growing in Japan, but expectant mothers and their families often face the difficult decision of ...

The fetal membranes consist of the chorion, amnion, yolk sac, and allantois. The chorion has three layers: cytotrophoblastic, chorionic connective tissue, and basement membrane. The chorion lies ...

The diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy requires differentiating it from a viable intrauterine pregnancy. This is done with the use of ß-human chorionic gonadotropin levels (ß-hCG), transvaginal ultrasound ...

Two couples have told the BBC they went through with abortions after an NHS trust mistakenly told them their unborn babies had serious genetic conditions. They say errors by doctors at the Nottingham ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In a significant medical milestone, the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at AIIMS Bhopal successfully performed its first Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) procedure on ...

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Types include: Observational study — observes people and measures outcomes without affecting results. Interventional study (clinical trial) — studies new ...

A woman who received flawed DNA test results identifying the wrong man as her unborn baby's father has told the BBC the mistake could have led to her losing custody of her child. 'Sarah' - not her ...

Triploidy is a condition that affects 1% to 3% of pregnancies. It’s when a developing baby has an extra set of chromosomes, the thread-like structures that carry DNA. A triploidy pregnancy usually ...