The hCG diet combines a very low-calorie diet with supplements that contain human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a hormone normally secreted early in pregnancy. Proponents of the diet say that the ...

Your healthcare provider may use one or both types of blood tests: A qualitative HCG blood test can tell you whether HCG is present with about the same accuracy as a urine test. A quantitative blood ...

As soon as a woman misses her period, the first question that pops up in her mind is usually ‘Am I pregnant?” Pregnancy tests have become a vital tool for women, as they offer a simple and ...

Objectives Urine pregnancy tests are often inaccessible in low-income settings. Expanded provision of home pregnancy testing could support self-care options for sexual and reproductive health and ...

MagPix is a versatile multiplexing platform capable of performing qualitative and quantitative analysis of proteins and nucleic acids in a variety of sample matrices, and can perform up to 50 tests in ...

After stimulation for approximately 10 days, the final stages of oocyte maturation are initiated with human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) or an GnRH agonist (or both), with the latter used to ...

The CLINITEK Microalbumin 2 Reagent Strips provide semi-quantitative results with a hard-copy report on the CLINITEK Status ® family of analyzers, making them ideal for point-of-care testing.