To their dismay, patients have to pay for the drug tests at their own (or their insurersâ) expense. Carol, a chronic pain patient who had been treated for seven years by the same clinic without any testing, reports that she was billed $325 for a urine screen.
Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD. May 2, 2012 -- Researchers say they've found a way to identify the father of a baby as early as the eighth week of pregnancy. The new method, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, uses fetal DNA isolated from the mother's blood.
On the other hand, it's not uncommon to get your period a few days late every once in a while. The best way to find out if you're pregnant is to take a home pregnancy test. Pregnancy tests check for the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), a hormone that your body starts producing after an egg is fertilized.