Around 36% (23,300) of women who attended antenatal services in Ireland last year did not receive a foetal anomaly ultrasound, a leading professor of Obstetrics has told a Dáil committee. Professor of ...

Addressing the rise of heart defects in children: Health expert on the importance of Anomaly Scans, why and when to do it during pregnancy Promoting children's health amid rising heart defects: Why ...

There is no easy way to tell parents at any stage of pregnancy that their baby has a severe fetal abnormality and may die in the hours or days after birth. But delivering a late diagnosis only adds to ...

An anomaly scan also called as anatomy scan is done between the 18 th or 20 th week of pregnancy. This is the most detailed scan done to examine the developing foetus, all its bodily features, growth ...

A MUM whose baby boy died an hour after birth yesterday called on the Government to provide a routine anomaly scan for women at 20 weeks. Diane Magee, whose son Christopher died last year, said if she ...

TRAUMATIC, distressing, inappropriate care, potential litigation — Dr Keelin O’Donoghue does not mince her words in a hard-hitting letter to 10 senior clinicians and managers within the local and ...

Good day,I am 29yrs old and currently 21 wks pregnant.My downs test came back possive with the ratio 1:741.The gynie suggested that I go for a anomaly scan to be 100% sure.Can you please let me know ...