New foetal screening test risky for older mothers - Two leading London consultant obstetricians deplored the use of chorion villus sampling the new, earlier screening test for Down's syndrome on older w...

Pregnant women: - Another group being given dangerous drugs - The very young and pregnant women are two groups who should almost never be prescribed general pharmaceuticals. Trials have never been carried out to...

Fetal sampling: poor track record - Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is not only a dangerous test in fetuses older than nine weeks when it was assumed to be the safest period for testing...

Pregnant women prescribed dangerous drugs - Women who are very young or pregnant are two population groups who should almost never be prescribed general pharmaceuticals. This is because trials h...

Amniocentesis - Any thoughts on this pregnancy test (which we erroneously described as a 'condition', apologies for which), asked a reader last time.

Prenatal test study halted - Early amniocentesis the prenatal test for Down's syndrome is so dangerous that Dutch researchers may abandon their trials into the procedure because i...

SSRIs: Pregnant women fear they will be forced to take danger drugs - A group of American mothers is fighting legislation that they say will force them to take SSRI antidepressant drugs such as Prozac even while they are...

Older mums have more unnecessary caesareans - Obstetric complications do not explain why pregnant women over 30 years of age are more likely than younger women to end up with a caesarean section....