Purpose: We provide background information/education for national recommendations to include initial newborn screening dried bloodspot serial numbers in electronic birth registrations. Mutual data ...
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Combining gene and biomarker screening for newborn health
For more than six decades, biomarker-based newborn screening has played a pivotal role in reducing infant mortality and ...
More than a decade ago, researchers launched the BabySeq Project, a pilot program to return newborn genomic sequencing results to parents and measure the effects on newborn care. Today, over 30 ...
Advances in technology and the expansion of screening programs has contributed to earlier detection of genetic and pregnancy associated health conditions and structural anomalies prenatally, ...
When federal lawmakers set out to improve the nation's newborn screening programs in 2007, they succeeded in creating grants and increasing the number of conditions tested throughout the country. Yet ...
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 ...
Background Congenital anomalies are among the common health problems faced by children in low- and middle-income countries, ...
I got a blood test as a newborn that changed the course of my life forever. The test, part of newborn screening performed on babies across the U.S. led to my being diagnosed with a rare inherited ...
The baby in Arkansas seems healthy at birth. Warm, fuzzy skin. A normal weight. But Aiden Cooper can't keep down formula. Don't worry, he's fine, doctors assure his mother as they leave the hospital.
The newborn screening program in Utah is now screening for a 45th condition, one expected to affect one infant every one or ...
Mandatory testing of 45 genetic disorders is designed to lead to treatment before symptoms do damage.
A positive newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is currently considered a medical emergency. Without early treatment, severe disability or death in infancy are likely. However, research ...
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