Around 36% (23,300) of women who attended antenatal services in Ireland last year did not receive a foetal anomaly ultrasound, a leading professor of Obstetrics has told a Dáil committee. Professor of ...

It will take at least another two years before ultrasound scans to pick up on foetal anomalies are available to all pregnant women in Ireland — and that’s only if funding is provided to hire one extra ...

When you're expecting a baby, the 20 week scan is incredibly important for many reasons. Also called an anomaly scan, not only does it signal the halfway mark, but it's also crucial in checking your ...

In late 2007, I came back to work in Cork from London, where after years working in fetal medicine research, I had been training as a specialist in maternal and fetal medicine. This was in a busy ...

My name's Matt. I'm an obstetric sonographer, a specialist in scanning unborn babies using ultrasound. An ultrasound scan is a procedure that uses high frequency sound waves to create images of the ...

A MUM whose baby boy died an hour after birth yesterday called on the Government to provide a routine anomaly scan for women at 20 weeks. Diane Magee, whose son Christopher died last year, said if she ...

The HSE has bowed to a campaign to reverse its prohibition on partners of pregnant women attending maternity hospitals for 20-week scans and surgical interventions. The measure was introduced as a ...