Health experts have urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department to simplify pre-marriage screening and provide free ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Preventive Act was enforced in 2009 to control thalassaemia and hepatitis but it remained far from being implemented, says officials.

Older pregnant women are more likely to have conditions like high blood pressure and obesity, for example, and are more prone ...

Cells4Life is a premium cord blood bank that can store a variety of stem cells, including cord blood, cord tissue and various placental tissues. The company offers CellsPlus processing on select plans ...

Cedars-Sinai and UCLA investigators have studied first trimester placental tissue and found that for some genes, the process that turns their information into a biological function may depend on the ...

Courtesy Getty Images In some rare cases, chorionic villus sampling can cause the mother to come into contact with the infant's blood, leading to alloimmunization. In pregnancies at risk of developing ...

What Is Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)? A chorionic villus sampling (CVS) prenatal test checks cells from the placenta (which are identical to cells from the fetus) to see if they have a chromosomal ...