Description:
Article from 2004 counseling against the "risky business [of] taking pictures of unborn babies when there's no medical need to do so," by "companies trying to turn an important medical procedure into a prenatal portrait tool." Includes a brief description of this "common diagnostic medical procedure, which uses high-frequency sound waves to produce dynamic images (sonograms)" that "can produce physical effects in tissue." From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). |