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

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

Explore the benefits of prenatal DNA screening to detect cytomegalovirus in early pregnancy for better health decisions.

—These investigators explored associations among early-life and in utero infections and cytomegalovirus-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, with signs pointing to underlying immune ...

The C in TORCH stands for CMV – cytomegalovirus, a type of herpesvirus that infects between 50% and 85% of adults in the U.S. and almost all adults in other parts of the world. Most of us never ...

Mothers with intrauterine transmission of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) to their newborns despite preconception immunity had higher levels of neutralizing antibodies but had weaker antibody-dependent ...

“Why didn’t anyone tell me about this virus?” is a frequent response I hear from parents upon learning their newborn is infected with cytomegalovirus or CMV. Although more than half of the U.S.

On a spring day in the late 1980s, pediatrician Mark Schleiss was confronted with a difficult case: a months-old infant who had developed pneumonia. While many infants with pneumonia recover, this ...

CMV is the leading cause of birth defects and developmental delays in the U.S. Yet, so few people know what it is or how to prevent it. In August 2019, when Corey Clem was pregnant with her daughter, ...

I read “Three letters every pregnant woman should know” (Ideas, April 16) with great interest. I was diagnosed with CMV 33 years ago while pregnant with my first child. I also had never heard of ...

Lily Belle never got to grow up, be a sister or experience the world, writes Arissa Viering. But with the right awareness and medical research, we might have been able to save her life. iStock ...