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  2. Noninvasive prenatal testing - Wikipedia

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    Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is a method used to determine the risk for the fetus being born with certain chromosomal abnormalities, such as trisomy 21, trisomy 18 and trisomy 13. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This testing analyzes small DNA fragments that circulate in the blood of a pregnant woman. [ 4 ]

  3. Cell-free fetal DNA - Wikipedia

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    Similar results were obtained targeting exons 7 and 10. [56] Droplet digital PCR in fetal RhD determination was comparable to a routine real-time PCR technique. [57] Routine determination of fetal RhD status from cffDNA in maternal serum allows early management of at risk pregnancies while decreasing unnecessary use of Anti-D by over 25 percent ...

  4. Reference ranges for blood tests - Wikipedia

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    Reference ranges (reference intervals) for blood tests are sets of values used by a health professional to interpret a set of medical test results from blood samples. Reference ranges for blood tests are studied within the field of clinical chemistry (also known as "clinical biochemistry", "chemical pathology" or "pure blood chemistry"), the ...

  5. Prenatal testing - Wikipedia

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    Requires a maternal blood draw. Based on DNA of fetal origin circulating in the maternal blood. Testing can potentially identify fetal aneuploidy [54] (available in the United States, beginning 2011) and gender of a fetus as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Fetal DNA ranges from about 2–10% of the total DNA in maternal blood.

  6. Doctors Explain The Surprising Reason Birth Control Is Less ...

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    Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonist medications might interfere with birth control and give certain patients a fertility boost, say doctors.

  7. Reference range - Wikipedia

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    The standard definition of a reference range for a particular measurement is defined as the interval between which 95% of values of a reference population fall into, in such a way that 2.5% of the time a value will be less than the lower limit of this interval, and 2.5% of the time it will be larger than the upper limit of this interval, whatever the distribution of these values.

  8. Rugby-Argentine court dismisses rape charges against two ...

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    BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -An Argentine court dismissed aggravated rape charges against French international rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou on Tuesday, drawing a line under a dark period ...

  9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.