“Pregnancy tests are so sensitive these days that people can often get positive ... a home pregnancy test around the time of a missed period. A blood test, on the other hand, is usually able ...

We now recommend a highly sensitive pregnancy test strip that can be ... reduce the small chance of a false positive due to the bump in hCG that occurs as a person approaches menopause.

But can a pregnancy test be wrong? On some rare (and we mean very rare) occasions, your test might display a false result. This could either be in the form of a 'false positive' - a test that says ...

Lots of steps need to happen, she says, from the time an egg and sperm meet to the moment a person tests positive on a pregnancy test ... remains something of a black box. At the moment, there's ...