After a prenatal test revealed that she had cancer, Dr. Sara Teichholtz (shown here with her 4-year-old son) was treated at MSK for cholangiocarcinoma. Nearly three years later, she has no evidence of ...

In December 2022, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics made a recommendation that all expectant mothers should be offered non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) instead of traditional ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found previously undetected cancers in 48.6% of pregnant people who had abnormal results for prenatal cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing used to ...

Hospitals in Iowa, as well as many other states, routinely conduct drug screenings and tests on pregnant patients and their newborns. In some cases patients may not even be aware of it, since ...

WHEN NON-INVASIVE prenatal testing (NIPT) arrived in 2011, it transformed pregnancy. With a simple blood test, scientists could now sweep a mother’s bloodstream for scraps of placental DNA, uncovering ...

Natera Inc. (($NTRA)) announced an update on their ongoing clinical study. Study Overview: Natera Inc. is conducting a study titled ‘EXpanding ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the moral concerns associated with certain medical exams. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My wife and I are planning on having children soon. We are very excited but also ...

A booming industry has recently come under scrutiny for some of its testing, including a high rate of false positive results. By Sarah Kliff The U.S. government plans to regulate a booming prenatal ...

When Mara Varona was pregnant she decided to take a common prenatal blood test to screen for genetic conditions. It was part of a proactive approach she and her husband took to pregnancy. "We're just ...