These days, it's pretty much routine for pregnant women in their second trimester to be scheduled for a level 2 ultrasound, more commonly called the 20-week anatomy scan. That's because practitioners ...

Patients insured by Medicaid are less likely to get prenatal diagnosis of heart defects than those with private insurance, and this disparity can be partly attributed to lower rates of 20-week ...

While Medicaid pays for prenatal ultrasound, publicly insured patients still end up getting the tests less often compared to those with private insurance, and they find out about infants having birth ...

Scanning for serious structural issues in fetuses during the first trimester can result in earlier detection of these issues, reports a new study led by Aris Papageorghiou at the University of Oxford, ...