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 ...

If you have ever welcomed a new baby into the world, you know the mix of hope and uncertainty that comes with those first days. For decades, newborn screening has been a quiet triumph of public health ...

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 ...

A new study will offer whole genome screening to 10,000 Ontario newborns, using the dried blood spot already collected for ...

This article is authored by Chandra Ganjoo, group Chief Executive Office, Trivitron Healthcare.

Routine newborn screening (NBS) has transformed early disease detection. However, traditional biochemical tests limit the range of conditions that can be identified at birth. Next-generation ...

Each year, specimen samples are collected from more than four million infants shortly after birth and sent to public health laboratories across the US. These samples are then tested for between 26 and ...

A growing number of parents across the U.S. are declining routine preventive care for their newborns, and doctors say the trend is raising concerns. KDKA-TV’s Meghan Schiller found it’s happening in ...

All newborns in Manitoba will be screened for a rare genetic disorder affecting the immune system that occurs at much higher rates in this province than in the rest of the world. The provincial ...

A more rational approach would ground screening decisions in epidemiological relevance, feasibility of treatment, and health system capacity ...