Non‐invasive prenatal testing: the new era in reproductive medicine

A new era in noninvasive prenatal testing.

499 developing world, might help to encourage companies to spend resources on breakthrough innovation, rather than on minor modifications and lawyer fees. But whatever its implications for innovation, this much is clear: poor people around the world need better access to affordable drugs, and this decision will help to provide it. Disclosure forms provided by the author are available with the f...

Noninvasive prenatal testing: the future is now.

Prenatal detection of chromosome abnormalities has been offered for more than 40 years, first by amniocentesis in the early 1970s and additionally by chorionic villus sampling (CVS) in the early 1980s. Given the well-recognized association between increasing maternal age and trisomy,1-3 the primary utilization of prenatal testing has been by older mothers. This has drastically reduced the incid...

A new era in prenatal care: non-invasive prenatal testing in Switzerland.

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Prenatal care has been significantly influenced by the introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for aneuploidies in 2012. The aim of this study was to describe the current impact of NIPT on prenatal care. METHODS We performed a retrospective data analysis including all women with singleton pregnancies who presented for first trimester screening (FTS) between ...

Precision Medicine: The new era in medicine

Precision medicine, also known as stratified medicine or personal-ized medicine, aims to better target intervention to the individual, maximize benefit and minimize harm. Enthusiasm for the prospect of precision medicine has grown significantly in the last few years. There has been increasing interest in two streams of development in precision medicine. First is the integration of electronic me...

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