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UVA Health: postpartum depression discovery opens door to a blood test and earlier treatment
New research from UVA School of Medicine and Weill Cornell could enable a postpartum depression blood test.
UVA Health's news release describes new postpartum depression research that could enable a blood test to identify women at elevated risk — and, eventually, preventive treatment.
The work is early-stage but is among the more promising lines of perinatal mental health biomarker research currently in progress.
Read the full UVA Health release for the study summary.
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