Pregnancy blood tests are over 99% accurate at detecting hCG, a hormone that rises after conception. False negatives can occur if the test is taken too early, so timing is important. Blood tests can ...

When you’re expecting a baby, you hope nothing goes wrong. But at least one in 20 people who are pregnant develop a scary complication called preeclampsia, a high blood pressure disorder that kills 70 ...

Scientists are learning more about this leading complication of childbirth. Treatments are improving and doctors can test for biological markers that flag heightened risk. When you purchase through ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A liquid biopsy of maternal plasma cell-free RNA predicted early- and late-onset preeclampsia. A researcher told ...

A new blood test is helping doctors predict the risk of preeclampsia earlier in pregnancy. It's a common complication of pregnancy involving high blood pressure. But Dr. Angela Angel, an ...

What Vanessa Drummond, 27, initially thought was the beginning of a new chapter turned out to be something completely unexpected: a rare condition known as Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD). It ...

Leiden researchers have found clues to why a rare pregnancy disorder is mild in some babies but life-threatening in others. Their discovery opens the door to a test that could identify severe cases ...

It’s not uncommon to be anemic during pregnancy, but that doesn’t mean you should ignore it – supplements can help (and may ...