The triple test is a second trimester screening test used to identify those pregnant women
who should be offered a diagnostic test to identify whether their fetus has an aneuploidy. It …

Background: Screening for Down's syndrome forms part of routine obstetric practice. Ethical
considerations relating to genetic screening form a major part of the workload of research …

The purpose of this study was to describe the attitudes among physicians working in
perinatal medicine towards abortion for social reasons or because of abnormal prenatal …

Despite widespread use over the past 20 years, prenatal diagnosis (PND) remains a
controversial technique because of the moral and organizational dilemmas that it raises in …

Many of the ethical issues arising from the use of prenatal diagnosis for specific discases
and cases are apparent to practitioners who have already confronted some issues in prac …

BACKGROUND: Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is an inherited disorder of hemoglobin synthesis
that is characterized by life-long severe hemolytic anemia, attacks of pain crisis, and chronic …

Introduction The management of congenital CNS anomalies differs among countries. This
paper reports on a worldwide survey of individual experience and regimens for treating …

Objectives: To assess the attitudes of pregnant women and mothers of children with
orofacial clefts toward prenatal diagnosis of clefts and elective termination of pregnancy, and …

In this study we evaluated how well maternal serum screening and abortions for Down
syndrome were accepted among midwives and public health nurses, and compared how …

Neural tube defects (NTDs) are very serious malformations for the fetus, causing either low
life expectancy or a chance of survival only with costly and difficult surgical interventions. In …