All of this may be reassuring to the person who undergoes the testing and then gets a clean bill of health. But recently this mass screening of healthy people has come under criticism. The problem may be that not enough positive findings turn up, except where expected, to justify the whole procedure in terms of [...]

A miscarriage or spontaneous abortion is almost as common as a normal birth. Most miscarriages occur in the first three months of the pregnancy.

Those that occur in the second trimester or between three to six months, usually are due to dilatation or opening of the cervix or neck of the womb.

This may happen as the [...]