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pregnancy test
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pregnancy test
Any test used to detect or confirm pregnancy; in early pregnancy, all PTs measure hCG, the developing placenta's principal hormone, which is detectable as early as 6 days after fertilization; in clinical laboratories, serum levels of hCG are quantified by ELISA or RIA; home testing kits are reliable, widely used, operate on the principle of agglutination, and have < 1% error rate Ref range Nonpregnant < 5 mIU/mL. See hCG, Estriol.


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If you have done the home pregnancy test and result shows positive, we blindly accept it, after all pregnancy tests are supposed to be 99% accurate.
Among those rules are month-by-month prescriptions based on passing pregnancy tests.
There was a time that home pregnancy tests were not anywhere near as accurate as a trip to your doctor, but that is no longer the case.
 
 
 
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