A new blood test has potential to identify a hard-to-predict but sometimes deadly pregnancy complication weeks before it would normally be found, leading to early treatment and possibly prevention.

In 2017, Dr. Barbi Phelps-Sandall, an obstetrician who has been practicing in the San Francisco Bay area for more than two decades, had just learned about a new blood test only available at select ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. A new blood test could predict preeclampsia as early as the first trimester. In a new study, ...

The Avantect blood test aims to change that by detecting the disease before symptoms appear, when treatment can still be ...

Study finds 22% reduction in NICU admissions with early detection method.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A liquid biopsy of maternal plasma cell-free RNA predicted early- and late-onset preeclampsia. A researcher told ...

A new blood test has an 80% accuracy in predicting preterm preeclampsia, according to a new study. The condition, which results in over 70,000 maternal deaths and 500,000 fetal deaths each year ...

Diagnosing endometriosis could soon be much easier thanks to a new at home-test that can detect a biomarker for the disease in period blood. The pregnancy-like test created by researchers at the ...