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Home Pregnancy Tests
Why It Is Done
A Reference home pregnancy test Opens New Window is done to detect pregnancy by detecting human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in your urine.
| By: | Reference Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: Reference April 4, 2012 |
| Medical Review: | Reference Sarah Marshall, MD - Family Medicine
Reference Siobhan M. Dolan, MD, MPH - Reproductive Genetics |
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