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 ...

U.K. health officials are facing pressure to rethink how they expand the list of diseases that all newborns are screened for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The earlier diseases are diagnosed, the earlier they can be treated. Unfortunately, time is often of the essence for those with rare genetic disorders. For example, the few therapies that exist for ...

Stanford AI can predict with over 85% accuracy which premature babies will suffer serious medical complications.

Lancet study proves that NHS refusing to screen for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) as part of the newborn heel prick test is costing lives - and taxpayers’ money ...