Even now, most older women who are candidates for prenatal diagnosis do not receive it.

Women of other ethnic backgrounds may be less open about their reasons for prenatal diagnosis.

If successful, this information can be used to identify affected family members, including prenatal diagnosis.

The only medical intervention for a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome is abortion.

Genetic counseling is recommended and prenatal diagnosis may be offered.

But he said he expected the major use of the method to be in very early prenatal diagnosis.

Prenatal diagnosis may sometimes be possible in future pregnancies.

However, almost all women meet with a genetic counselor before deciding whether to have prenatal diagnosis.

Prenatal diagnosis is possible using either biochemical or molecular tests.

He said that most doctors have little or no training on how to relay a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.

They use prenatal diagnosis and screening tests, such as amniocentesis.

Prenatal diagnosis starts before there is a fetus to diagnose.

A fetal ultrasound can offer prenatal diagnosis 19 weeks into pregnancy.

The center's guidelines for genetic screening and prenatal diagnosis have influenced laws in several others.

Some disorders can be detected before birth through prenatal diagnosis (screening).

Prenatal diagnosis clearly results in decreased mortality for both mother and neonate.

Now those differences, or polymorphisms, are being used for prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling.

Genetic counselors are usually called upon to help families make informed decisions regarding results of prenatal diagnosis.

"A doctor will call and say, are you doing prenatal diagnosis for fetal sexing?

A new method of prenatal diagnosis may be less accurate than it has often been portrayed, according to a study and interviews with experts.

Do you think I know nothing of amniocentesis and prenatal diagnosis and counseling?

These concerns also may prompt individuals to consider using prenatal diagnosis methods to help reduce the risk of transmission.

In a way, this makes it a little bit foolish and naive to ask what's the best way to do prenatal diagnosis.

It is also possible to obtain a prenatal diagnosis for an embryo or fetus in the womb.

Such translocations are usually harmless and may be found through prenatal diagnosis.

Ask your provider about prenatal screening tests for the baby.

California already requires doctors to offer a kind of prenatal screening to all pregnant women.

Details of prenatal screening and testing options may be provided.

"I got out of the field of prenatal screening years ago," he told me.

Most women who have prenatal screening tests learn that the baby is healthy and feel reassured by the results.

The only way to tell was prenatal screening.

Genetic counseling and prenatal screening may be available to those with a family history of this condition who are planning to have children.

Fighting Down syndrome with prenatal screening does not "border on eugenics."

It is also possible to increase the effectiveness of other forms of prenatal screening.

Take such prenatal screening methods as ultrasound and amniocentesis, she says.

The laboratory specializes in prenatal screening during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Nor does it provide an answer for those who fear that prenatal screening may lead scientists to limit future research on genetic disorders.

Newborns may be asymptomatic and are only identified on routine prenatal screening.

Down syndrome can be identified in a baby at birth or before birth by prenatal screening.

They argue that the rising trend is therefore predictable and without prenatal screening it would be significantly higher.

Practices such as genetic counselling and prenatal screening may counteract this effect.

The most accurate method of diagnosis is prenatal screening through real-time fetal images.

But for people with Down syndrome and the cluster of other conditions subject to prenatal screening, the new test comes with a certain chill.

Many fetuses are aborted when the defects are found in prenatal screening.

An ultrasound performed at 20 weeks gestation for prenatal screening and diagnosis can discover this.

Medical texts have used this case as an example to illustrate the need for proper precautions when performing abortions and prenatal screening.

Prenatal screening was first introduced nearly four decades ago, yet gaps still exist in public knowledge about the screening program.

As part of the Cambridge prenatal screening study, 1387 women from nine hospitals in four regions completed a postal questionnaire six weeks after giving birth.

Prenatal diagnosis which further discusses the reasons for prenatal screening and the ethics of such testing.

The growing use of serum screening and ultrasound examination seems to be improving prenatal screening for Down's syndrome.