Most Hospital Pregnancy Tests Found to Be Unreliable After First Few Weeks of Pregnancy
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
Though the 11 most popular hospital urine pregnancy tests perform well in the first month after conception, a new study published in Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, reveals the alarming statistic that nine of these tests become significantly more likely to produce false-negative results after the 5th to 7th week of pregnancy.