Before the advent of ultrasounds in the late 1950s, parents could only hope that their baby would be born healthy and with ten fingers and toes. Today, ultrasounds are standard for every pregnancy, so ...

There is no doubt that ultrasounds provide doctors with vital information about the condition of an unborn child. As the images get clearer -- and three dimensional -- more and more women are getting ...

For pregnant women (and their partners), prenatal ultrasounds can be awe-inspiring. It’s undeniably neat to actually see what the baby looks like before he or she emerges, and the resulting pictures ...

Ultrasounds are one of the highlights of pregnancy—parents-to-be get a fuzzy sneak peek at what their baby looks like after months of wondering. A recent Lenny newsletter pointed out that we’re the ...

When Sarah Carter was pregnant with her first child, she started digging into the research on ultrasounds, scouring studies in mice and rats. She couldn’t find any evidence in humans they cause harm — ...

An ultrasound is a painless procedure that uses sound waves to generate images of the inside of your body. Your doctor will often use an ultrasound to create images of a fetus during pregnancy. A ...

Ultrasounds send high-frequency sound waves into the body. They help doctors identify abnormal growths and can be used to identify ovarian cancer. Although ultrasounds can detect tumors and masses, ...