Study: Hundreds of U.K. Women Wrongly Told They Had Miscarriages

Scientists said ultrasound checks are resulting in some women with perfectly healthy pregnancies wrongly being told that their baby died in the womb. Women then usually would have a termination.If women experience pain or bleeding during a pregnancy, doctors scan the gestational sac inside the womb. If there is no embryo or the fetus has no heartbeat, they diagnose a miscarriage.

But where there is doubt, doctors are advised to measure the size of the gestational sac seven to 10 days later. If the sac has not grown, a miscarriage is assumed to have occurred. FoxNews

Related: Improve miscarriage guidelines to prevent misdiagnosis

Editor: This is disturbing.

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