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2. Pregnancy test - Wikipedia

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   This image depicts how the hormone hCG, produced by pregnant women's placentas, is detected in urine pregnancy tests to indicate a positive result. Identified in the early 20th century, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a glycoprotein hormone that rises quickly in the first few weeks of pregnancy, typically reaching a peak at 8- to 10-weeks ...

3. Prenatal care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Prenatal care in the United States is a health care preventive care protocol recommended to women with the goal to provide regular check-ups that allow obstetricians-gynecologists, family medicine physicians, or midwives to detect, treat and prevent potential health problems throughout the course of pregnancy while promoting healthy lifestyles that benefit both mother and child. [1]

4. Prenatal care - Wikipedia

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   Prenatal care, also known as antenatal care, is a type of preventive healthcare.It is provided in the form of medical checkups, consisting of recommendations on managing a healthy lifestyle and the provision of medical information such as maternal physiological changes in pregnancy, biological changes, and prenatal nutrition including prenatal vitamins, which prevents potential health problems ...

5. Your handy guide to the doctor appointments you should be ...

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   There is also a test known as a prostate cancer gene 3 (PCA3) RNA test, which is a urine-based test to look for cells that indicate prostate cancer, that may be used. The USPSTF warns about the ...

6. Prenatal testing - Wikipedia

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   There are three purposes of prenatal diagnosis: (1) to enable timely medical or surgical treatment of a condition before or after birth, (2) to give the parents the chance to abort a fetus with the diagnosed condition, and (3) to give parents the chance to prepare psychologically, socially, financially, and medically for a baby with a health problem or disability, or for the likelihood of a ...

7. Rabbit test - Wikipedia

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   The term "rabbit test" was first recorded in 1949, and was the origin of a common euphemism, "the rabbit died", for a positive pregnancy test. [4] The phrase was, in fact, based on a common misconception about the test. While many people assumed that the injected rabbit would die only if the woman was pregnant, in fact all rabbits used for the ...

8. Noninvasive prenatal testing - Wikipedia

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   The NIPT test does not put the mother or the fetus in any type of danger compared to the other invasive tests that are available, making it the safest option for prenatal testing. Studies have found that the in the instance of detecting Trisomy 21 has a reliability value of 99.2%, which makes NIPT more reliable than other tests than are ...

9. Medical certificate - Wikipedia

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   A medical certificate or doctor's certificate [1] [2] is a written statement from a physician or another medically qualified health care provider which attests to the result of a medical examination of a patient. [3] It can serve as a sick note (UK: fit note) (documentation that an employee is unfit for work) or evidence of a health condition. [4]