The newborn screening program for early identification of hereditary diseases, one of the most successful public health programs in United States, was introduced more than 60 years ago. As the ...

A retrospective analysis on newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) provides further evidence for the benefits of early identification and treatment of the disease. Over the years, a ...

The United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation released the first guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), in order to improve timely detection of CF in infants from all racial and ...

Newborn screening, which represents one of the major advances in child health of the past century, has been carried out in all fifty U.S. states since the 1970s. New-born screening programs are ...

A committee of experts will conduct a study examining the current landscape of newborn screening (NBS) systems, processes, and research in the United States and consider sustainable adoption of ...

Sen. Becky Massey, R-Knoxville, represents District 6 in the Tennessee Senate. Rep. David Hawk, R-Greeneville, represents District 5 in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Tennessee is a national ...

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, ...

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 ...

As newborn screening programs expand to include babies’ entire genomes, parents must be made aware of the privacy risks and states must create rules to rein in unbridled police access to this data.