Prenatal Screening Articles
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Meet the Entrepreneur: Carolyn Yarina and Gillian Henker, Sisu Global
At FINCA Ventures, we look for entrepreneurs leveraging market-based solutions to create large-scale, lasting social impact. In this series, “Meet the Entrepreneur,” we’ll be taking you into the minds of the intrepid leaders at our portfolio companies who boldly venture into markets in need of positive disruption. Globally, there is a shortage of over 100M units of donor blood ...
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What is an IVD Medical Device? Mic Provides a Compact Option
The global COVID-19 pandemic has spurred on a new demand for diagnostic equipment and products in the race to minimise spread. Airports, workplaces, border checkpoints, hospitals and countless other facilities - they’ve all needed accurate qPCR testing capabilities. ...
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FIGO good clinical practice paper: management of the second stage of labor
Abstract This good clinical practice paper provides an overview of the current evidence around second stage care, highlighting the challenges and the importance of maintaining high-quality, safe, and respectful care in all settings. It includes a series of recommendations based on best available evidence regarding length of second stage, judicious use of episiotomy, and the importance of ...
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UCT Clean Screen® DAU Cited in Umbilical Cord Drug Testing
Analysis of umbilical cord samples offers forensic toxicologists a method for evaluating maternal drug intake patterns. These matrices may be an uncommon sample for many laboratories, but for those that are tasked with the challenge, solid phase extraction offers the most efficient methodology for the analysis of said compounds. An estimated 5% of expectant mothers use illicit drugs during ...
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Environmental exposure to pesticides: biomarkers in non–invasively collected matrices in prenatal development and childhood
The collection of invasive samples from susceptible populations may suffer from ethical and practical limitations that restrict the routine application of human biomonitoring. Moreover, the accumulation of exposure data will be unsuccessful in risk assessment if not integrated through the appropriate sets of biomarkers for early biological responses. This paper reviews the usefulness and ...
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Metal Concentrations in Blood and Hair in Pregnant Females in Southern Sweden
The study described here was comprised of 100 pregnant females from two prenatal care units at the cities of Hassleholm and Simrishamn in southern Sweden. It included a questionnaire as well as whole blood (total mercury, cadmium, and lead) and hair (total mercury) sampling (collection period 2002–2003). The median values of total mercury (B-Hg 0.70 µg/L; range 0.27–2.1 µg/L), cadmium (0.30 µg/L, ...
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Health implications of mercury exposure in children
Mercury is a ubiquitous environmental toxin that can produce a wide range of health effects in humans. It is found in three chemical forms: organic, inorganic and elemental (mercury). The sources of exposure are also markedly different for the different forms of mercury. Diet, especially fish and other seafood, is the main source of exposure of the general public to organic mercury. Dental ...
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Association between maternal occupational status and utilization of antenatal care
Objectives: Adequate utilization of antenatal care reduces the morbidity of mother and child. How frequent a pregnant woman attends antenatal care is dependent on many factors. The aim of this study was to assess the current influence of educational level and occupational status on maternal utilization of antenatal care under the conditions of an industrialized country and provision of universal ...
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