When you're pregnant, prenatal tests give you information about your and your baby's health. These tests help spot any problems that could affect them, such as birth defects or genetic diseases.

With Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), molecular genetics enables the correlation between changes in the structure and ...

For decades, prenatal testing for Down syndrome and other chromosomal ... who has been at the NIPT lab since it began testing in 2013, recalls that it was clinicians who first drew their attention ...

Many home pregnancy tests claim to be 99% accurate when testing is done on the day of an expected period. However, these estimates are based on laboratory testing of urine samples done by trained ...

The largest volume of testing performed at the UAB OB/GYN Research and Diagnostic Laboratory is from our obstetric patients. Over 4000 women deliver at UAB annually and the vast majority are cared for ...

To examine whether the frequency of four screening tests during prenatal care conforms to evidence of effectiveness. We estimated rates of urine culture, anemia screening, oral glucose tolerance ...