Archive for the 'Pregnancy News' Category

Topic: Pregnancy News - Alert over faulty pregnancy testing kits (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

AN ALERT has been issued to women in Coventry after it was discovered that a batch of pregnancy testing kits used by hospitals was faulty. The nationwide alert was issued by The Medicines and Health Care Product Agency after it was informed of a patient who received negative test results when tested with the Clearview make of kit. The trust has stated there is a chance that women who have taken a test between March 28, 2007, and June 8, 2007, and had a negative result could actually be pregnant. The faulty tests have been produced by Inverness Medical Innovations and it is believed that around 80,000 of the tests were distributed across Europe between March and April. read more

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Atlantis Embraces Luttrell’s Pregnancy (Sci Fi Wire)- About: Pregnancy News

Friday, June 15th, 2007

SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI. RSS is a newsfeed that will let you access Sci Fi Wire with a newsreader such as Newsgator or Bloglines. Get SCI FI Wire News delivered to your Palm or other handheld device! Comments or questions about SCI FI Wire? SCI FI Wire talks to actors and filmmakers. Rachel Luttrell, who plays the fierce warrior Teyla in SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate Atlantis , told SCI FI Wire that the producers are writing her real-life pregnancy into the show’s fourth-season storyline. read more

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Pregnancy Tests Alert (RedNova)- Pregnancy News

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

HOSPITALS are trying to contact patients who may have been given dodgy pregnancy test kits. More than 80,000 Clearview HCG kits have been recalled by makers Unipath after some from the batch were faulty. Around 10,500 of them were bought by 22 hospitals and clinics in Ireland. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. read more

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