Premaitha Health Updated Iona Test

Jun 26, 2017

Premaitha Health has updated its Iona noninvasive prenatal test, which now includes the first trimester combined test risk score as an option in its software. The company said that it completed a validation study to show that the Iona test in combination with the first trimester combined screen was as accurate as estimating prior risk using maternal age.

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