POSTS TAGGED AS obstetrics

A Fertility Chip

By now, Ph.D. candidate Loes Segerick should have received her degree from the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).  [MORE]

New Diagnostic for Metabolic Disease in Neonates

Tyrosinemia Type 1, like some other inherited amino acidurias, is a rare disease in most populations, but is treatable [MORE]

Getting More out of Guthrie Cards

While there is a perception that wide-spread genetic testing raises difficult ethical issues, the fact is that universal genetic testing [MORE]

Mother’s Blood Biomarkers for Fetal Genomics

It’s an astonishing discovery-a fetus’s entire genome is present in the mother’s blood.  Small fragments of fetal DNA in [MORE]

Balloon Solution for Postpartum Bleeding

Based on the development work of Michael Belfort and Gary Dildy in Salt Lake City, Glenveigh Medical (Chattanooga, TN) [MORE]

20 Year Old Embryo Finally Born

In 1990, a couple undergoing IVF stored five cryopreserved embryos after they completed their family.  Their aim was to [MORE]

Improving the Chances with in vitro Fertilization

By taking time-lapse pictures in dark-field microscopy, a team from Stanford University’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative [MORE]

Heartbeats, More Complex than Supposed

For her PhD thesis in biophysics at the University of Virginia, Abigail Flower investigated the high variability of heart [MORE]

Sperm Counting Fertility Chip

Nanotechnologists at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands) have developed a lab-on-a-chip which counts sperm as they [MORE]

Telemedicine: Listening for Newborn’s Heart Murmur

Using a Philips 5500 ultrasound machine, connected to a Librestream Onsight 2000R video device, and a secured communications network (provided [MORE]

OB Cell Phone Application

AirStrip, Inc. (San Antonio, TX) has recently received FDA approval for its obstetrics application used on the Apple iPhone.  This [MORE]