When babies are born in New Jersey, they don’t wait long before they take their very first test. Within 48 hours of birth, a newborn’s heel is pricked, and their blood is collected on a paper card to ...

A baby at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida gets his foot pricked to run a simple blood test that can detect metabolic disorders. mhs Newborn screenings are important for assuring the ...

Parents seeking to end New Jersey's practice of storing baby blood leftover from newborn disease screenings have filed a new ...

It started a few days after birth with a few drops of blood taken from a newborn’s foot. And for the family of young Maisie, ...

When a baby is born in the United States, a few drops of blood are taken from their heel to test for many conditions that could affect the child’s long-term health or survival. This testing is part of ...

Hannah Lovaglio's first son entered the world a month early. Nurses bustled in and out of the hospital room during his first days of life and frequently pricked his heel to check his blood, Lovaglio ...

This July 2022 photo shows a lab in Lansing, Mich., where the state health department tests blood from newborns for more than 50 rare diseases. (Joey Cappelletti/Report for America via AP) (CN) — The ...

Newborn screenings are important for assuring the well-being and timely treatment of medical issues for infants. These screenings identify conditions that can impact a child’s health and even survival ...