WASHINGTON — Leadership and coordination at the national level are needed to build on the strength of screening programs that test all newborn babies’ blood for serious health conditions and to ensure ...

One of the great successes of public health in the US is the newborn screening program, which tests infants in every state for more than 30 serious but treatable congenital diseases. For the four ...

The Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC) was terminated in April. After sweeping cuts ...

To benefit, children must be diagnosed in the first few weeks of life, and right now that’s essentially impossible without newborn screening.” Researchers have developed a test to screen for ...

The test, part of newborn screening performed on babies across the U.S. led to my being diagnosed with a rare inherited disorder, phenylketonuria (PKU). I avoided intellectual disability and ...

Today, over 30 international initiatives are exploring the expansion of newborn screening using genomic sequencing (NBSeq), but a new study highlights the substantial variability in gene selection ...

The American Journal of Managed Care provides insights into the latest news and research in managed care across multimedia ...

Sickle cell disease doesn’t discriminate, but it does disproportionately affect those with the least access to healthcare ...

JB Pritzker signed a law to add Duchenne muscular dystrophy to the state’s newborn screening panel. But the screenings haven’t started yet — because lawmakers haven’t funded them.

Minnesota newborns will soon be screened for a disease that can lead to delays in developmental milestones, regression of skills, seizures and in some cases death. The Minnesota Commissioner of Health ...

First-time mother Karen Murphy, 32, from Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, and husband Martin Murphy, called for several ...