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 typically occurs within the first 24 to 48 hours after birth. Babies undergo blood spot testing for conditions from spinal muscular atrophy to cystic fibrosis to sickle cell ...

Newborn screening programs are public health initiatives that started in the 1960s to aid in the early detection of phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare but serious genetic disease.

UCSF Pediatrics Professor Jennifer Puck, MD, has spent decades pushing for universal newborn screening to detect severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), a rare but deadly genetic disorder.Today, her ...

September is Newborn Screening Awareness Month, highlighting the importance of early detection and intervention for newborns. Here, Dr. Joshua Baker, attending physician in genetics, genomics and ...

However, adding new conditions to newborn screening programs is slow. In the U.S. it takes an average of 9.5 years to add a single condition to the recommended uniform screening panel (RUSP).

Early results from a study of newborn screening methods show that DNA analysis picks up many more preventable or treatable serious health conditions than standard newborn screening and is favored ...

Many of us are familiar with the newborn blood spot screening test. This screening test has been performed since the 1960s in ...

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 ...

When asked about newborn screening tests, nearly half of surveyed parents with a young child did not know the conditions included on these tests, according to results presented at the Pediatric ...