At the beginning of February, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine held its annual conference. Again it was reported that the new non-invasive prenatal test is inferior to traditional screening because it misses too many conditions. Mary Norton, an physician at the University of California, San...
(26 when I conceived), my husband is 30 years old, and our Panorama results indicated 68% chance of T21 with a fetal fraction of 2.9%. I’ve poured over your website and medical journals and I’m angered that this test was even presented to me (and might I say presented as ...
Early voter receives his I-Voted sticker, at an early voting polling station at the Ranchito Avenue Elementary School in the Panorama City section of Los Angeles on Monday, March 2, 2020. Major changes to the way people vote has election advocates on edge as Californians cast ballots...
a prenatal test for Down syndrome and other conditions with an extra chromosome. Competitors have since entered the market offering their own brand: Ariosa’s Harmony, Verinata’s verifi, and Natera’s Panorama. These tests promise very high detection rates and very low false negative...
No matter how the test results are returned or told by a medical provider, a MaterniT21, verifi, Harmony, or Panorama test isnever positive. Tests placental DNA, not fetal DNA. At the time of the launch, NIPS was described as testingcell free fetal DNA(cffDNA). It turns out the...