PREGNANCY TESTS

"PREGNANCY TESTS" is a plural of: pregnancy test.

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

I was at work and on my break and I took one of those home pregnancy tests from aisle eleven. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Evernew Biotech Inc., with paid-up capital of NTD 165 million, was established in June 1985 for the production of diagnostic EIA kits for hepatitis B and pregnancy tests. (references)

Fujirebio Taiwan Inc., with paid-up capital of NTD 21.5 million, was established in June 1981 for the production of diagnostic EIA and HA kits for hepatitis B and pregnancy tests. (references)

These tests examine fluid or tissue samples to detect, diagnose, and manage medical conditions, and range from the automated clinical chemistry analyzers used in hospitals to simple home pregnancy tests. (references)

Human Rights

China

In June 1999 Anhui province promulgated amended family planning rules that stated that each couple "is encouraged" to have only one child, that second births are "strictly controlled," and that "unplanned births are forbidden." Women of childbearing age are required periodically to undergo pregnancy tests, and couples are required to "practice effective contraceptive measures." Couples already having a child are required to adopt long-term birth control measures. (references)

Women

Mexico

In July the President publicly criticized the practice of requiring pregnancy tests for women applying for jobs, acknowledged that the Federal Labor Law has been violated in this respect, and pledged that federal hiring practices would respect women's rights. (references)

Mexico

To avoid these expensive requirements, some employers, including some in the maquila industry, reportedly deliberately violate these provisions by requiring pregnancy tests in preemployment physicals, by regular examinations and inquiries into women's reproductive status (including additional pregnancy tests), by exposing pregnant women to difficult or hazardous conditions to make them quit, or by dismissing them. (references)

Worker Rights

Honduras

Labor unions, women's groups, and human rights groups report receiving complaints from workers in textile export industries that include: illegal preemployment pregnancy tests, severely limited access to medical services, verbal abuse, no freedom to organize unions, forced and unpaid overtime. (references)

Taiwan

In 2000 the CLA ended the practice of requiring foreign female workers to undergo pregnancy tests. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: penetrants, pennycress.

-5 letters: antetypes, cageyness, centenary, cytasters, entrances, estranges, greatness, necessary, passenger, penetrant, preenacts, pregnancy, pretastes, reascents, renascent, repentant, sarcenets, sergeancy, sergeants, sergeanty, setenants, spectates, strangest, tangences, tesseract, transects, transepts, trapnests, typecases, typecasts.

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