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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . University CMV testing among newborns is not common. In Minnesota, the first state with universal CMV testing, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Around 5% of babies born in the United States have congenital cytomegalovirus. Pooled saliva testing in two ...

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

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 ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Gov. Ned Lamont passed a bill that mandates all newborns be screened for congenital cytomegalovirus or CMV. It is a virus that is the number one cause of non-genetic hearing ...

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 ...

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 — commonly known as CMV — causes typical virus symptoms like fever, sore throat or fatigue in most people. It can be detrimental for a pregnant person who gets it and passes it to ...