Commercial landscape of noninvasive prenatal testing in the United States

A Agarwal, LC Sayres, MK Cho… - Prenatal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Cell‐free fetal DNA‐based noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) could significantly change
the paradigm of prenatal testing and screening. Intellectual property (IP) and …

Short interpregnancy intervals and adverse maternal outcomes in high‐resource settings: an updated systematic review

JA Hutcheon, HD Nelson, R Stidd… - Paediatric and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Currently, no federal guidelines provide recommendations on healthy birth
spacing for women in the United States. This systematic review summarises associations …

Adverse perinatal outcomes associated with homelessness and substance use in pregnancy

M Little, R Shah, MJ Vermeulen, A Gorman… - Cmaj, 2005 - Can Med Assoc
Background: Women who are homeless during pregnancy may be exposed to poor nutrition,
violence and substance use, yet the health status of their newborn infants has not been …

Low uptake of prenatal screening for Down syndrome in minority ethnic groups and socially deprived groups: a reflection of women's attitudes or a failure to facilitate …

E Dormandy, S Michie, R Hooper… - International journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background It is not known if lower uptake of prenatal screening for Down syndrome in
women from minority ethnic groups and socioeconomically disadvantaged women reflects …

Covid-19: ensuring equality of access to testing for ethnic minorities

C Dodds, I Fakoya - Bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Until successful vaccination programmes are in place governments will be heavily reliant on
widespread testing and contact tracing to reduce the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 …

Socioeconomic inequalities in outcome of pregnancy and neonatal mortality associated with congenital anomalies: population based study

LK Smith, JLS Budd, DJ Field, ES Draper - Bmj, 2011 - bmj.com
Objectives To investigate socioeconomic inequalities in outcome of pregnancy and neonatal
mortality associated with congenital anomalies. Design Retrospective population based …

Use of folic acid supplements, particularly by low-income and young women: a series of systematic reviews to inform public health policy in the UK

L Stockley, V Lund - Public health nutrition, 2008 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo provide a basis for making recommendations on the potential to improve use of
folic acid supplements in the UK, particularly among low-income and young women …

Results of the recent immigrant pregnancy and perinatal long-term evaluation study (RIPPLES)

JG Ray, MJ Vermeulen, MJ Schull, G Singh, R Shah… - CMAJ, 2007 - Can Med Assoc
Background: People who immigrate to Western nations may experience fewer chronic
health problems than original residents of those countries, which raises concerns about long …

Pulse oximetry screening for congenital heart defects in newborn infants: an evaluation of acceptability to mothers

R Powell, HM Pattison, A Bhoyar, AT Furmston… - Archives of Disease in …, 2013 - fn.bmj.com
Background Introducing neonatal screening procedures may not be readily accepted by
parents and may increase anxiety. The acceptability of pulse oximetry screening to parents …

Socio‐demographic disparities in the uptake of prenatal screening and diagnosis in Western Australia

S Maxwell, K Brameld, C Bower… - Australian and New …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Since the early 1980s, prenatal screening using ultrasound and biochemical
markers has been used to refine the risk of Down syndrome and other fetal anomalies prior …