Pregnancy tests have become a very reliable tool that women can use to find out if they are pregnant or not. This means they no longer have to run to the doctor’s office each time they think they are expecting a baby. Nowadays, they can test for pregnancy with a simple hCG urine pregnancy test...
Breakthrough Bleeding Condition Explained Breakthrough bleeding is spotting that women experience throughout the normal menstrual cycle or even during pregnancy. This is common in the fertilization process especially. If you have started taking birth control pills or other forms of contraception recently, then you may get a temporary breakthrough bleeding as well. Although this is...
Home pregnancy tests are made to detect the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), the pregnancy hormone produced by the fertilized egg in your body. Nowadays, there are numerous different types and brands of pregnancy tests, but they all function in the same way at the end of the day. Types of Home Pregnancy Tests Each pregnancy...
The Science Behind the Accuracy of Pregnancy Tests Home pregnancy tests are made to detect the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) pregnancy hormone in the urine. The body starts to produce hCG soon after the fertilized egg implants in the uterus, but it usually takes around two weeks for levels to be high enough for accurate...
Wrong pregnancy test outcomes do happen, and sometimes that’s due to user error, test inaccuracy, or the biological processes in the body. We will discuss all possible reasons for false-negative home pregnancy tests below. It is worth noting that these tests are much simpler than false positives in terms of body complications. But be that...
You have probably imagined the scenario of taking a home pregnancy test and finding out you’re having a baby in your head a million times. But you probably never spent much time thinking about actually buying the pregnancy test at the drugstore. Staring at all those boxes with descriptions claiming they can detect your pregnancy...
Understanding the GM Diet Plan GM diet is a diet program prepared as a service to all General Motors Inc. employees and board of directors. This program has been established and a grant from the US Department of Agriculture and the BFAD administration. The main objective of this diet program is to help the employees...
CVS Pregnancy Tests: The Total Benefit, Risk, and Complication of CVS Chorionic villus sampling (CVS), or chorionic villus biopsy, is a prenatal pregnancy test that involves taking a sample of tissue from the placenta to test for chromosomal abnormalities and certain other hereditary or biochemical anomalies. The placenta is a structure in the uterus that...
Being pregnant for a woman means getting into a whole other stage of life. It is an exciting period but also a stressful one because it brings up an array of science and chemistry questions, the first being: how do pregnancy tests work? Before we get into the Clearblue pregnancy testing kit, let’s talk a...
No matter what you hope for, taking a home pregnancy test can be quite a stressful experience. Especially when you aren’t even sure that you will get the correct result. Although quite advanced by now in detecting pregnancies, tests are still possible to show a false-positive or a false-negative result. But how do you know...
