THE Department of Health (DOH) has inaugurated the country’s first Newborn Screening Continuity Clinic (NBSCC) at the Bataan ...

As predicted the era of universal newborn genomic screening is dawning. The UK and Florida are leading the way.

The country's first fully dedicated, facility-integrated Newborn Screening Continuity Clinic (NBSCC) was inaugurated at the Bataan General Hospital and Medical ...

Newborn screening (NBS) is a state-based public health program that identifies babies at risk of serious, but treatable conditions. Although each state or territory independently determines what ...

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 ...

The UK's health secretary has announced a 10-year plan to check newborns for a huge range of rare conditions. There are major ...

With the initiative, families can have their baby’s full genetic code sequenced at no cost to identify potentially serious ...

Without newborn screening, most families don’t get a diagnosis until age 5, years too late for treatments to be most effective. An FDA-authorized screening test has existed since 2019.

Wisconsin's newborn screening program took the first step toward adding Krabbe disease to a list of nearly 50 disorders the state already screens for at birth. At least ten other states already ...

Currently, new parents are offered a blood spot test for their babies, normally when the child is five days old, to check whether they have any of nine rare, but serious, conditions. The newborn’s ...