When we found out we were expecting our third child, we were overjoyed. No pregnancy is easy, of course, and we already had our hands full with two little ones. But this was our third time around, and ...

A new study indicates that noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) performed using a low-cost form of whole genome sequencing ...

Medically reviewed by Cordelia Nwankwo, MD Key Takeaways CMV is common and stays in the body for life.Congenital CMV can lead ...

The FDA has granted premarket approval to a test that assesses a patient’s viral load of cytomegalovirus (CMV), the most common and important viral infection in recipients of solid organ transplants.

Laura Gibson is an associate professor of medicine and of pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School. CMV belongs to the same virus family as cold sores and chickenpox and, like those viruses, lives in ...

Minnesota is the first U.S. state to universally test newborns for cytomegalovirus, an easily transmissible virus and a leading cause of infant hearing loss and congenital birth defects. The ...

A new health screening law for newborns is going into effect Jan. 1. All Florida hospitals and birthing facilities must test newborns for congenital cytomegalovirus, also known as CMV, according to a ...

Cytomegalovirus belongs to the same virus family, _Herpesviridae_, as cold sores and chickenpox. Callista Images/Image Source via Getty Images So if most people are unlikely to get sick from CMV at ...

Cytomegalovirus colitis is inflammation of the stomach or intestine resulting from a cytomegalovirus infection. It can cause complications in people who are immunocompromised. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is ...