Newborn screening involves education of physicians and parents, definitive diagnosis, long-term management, and quality evaluation. If all of these compo-nents of a program are not in place, ...

The court ruled that keeping leftover blood spots and making them available for outside research is not a constitutional ...

Eliminating the ACHDNC creates a dangerous vacuum in the nation’s newborn screening system, stalling progress on adding life-saving tests to the RUSP and increasing the risk that diagnoses will ...

Newborn screening, conducted within the first 24-48 hours post-birth, identifies hidden genetic, metabolic, and endocrine ...

The United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation released the first guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), in order to improve timely detection of CF in infants from all racial and ...

All states need to bring their newborn cystic fibrosis (CF) screening programs into line to ensure timely detection when intervention can do the most good, according to consensus guidelines from ...

Newborn screening is typically conducted at birth by pricking the baby's heel for blood, and with hearing and cardiac exams. NORD estimates that newborn screening identifies 14,000 infants ...

Newborn screening for genetic metabolic diseases helps a portion of children stay healthy as they grow, but decompensation episodes still occur in the first weeks after birth before test results ...

Improving newborn genetic screening Date: May 9, 2025 Source: Mass General Brigham Summary: More than a decade ago, researchers launched the BabySeq Project, a pilot program to return newborn ...

Newborn screenings identify around 14,000 babies every year who have potentially life-threatening or life-altering conditions, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD).