For decades, newborn screening has relied on a heel-prick blood test that identifies a limited number of serious conditions ...

Texas newborns are now screened for a rare genetic disorder called GAMT deficiency, expanding the state’s testing panel to 60 ...

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 ...

Concern raised that testing might needlessly raise parents anxiety, zap resources ...

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 ...

InvestigateTV - Hours after newborn babies enter the world in the United States, cries inevitably ring out when a nurse pricks their heels to draw their blood. This routine test, where blood is ...

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced on Tuesday that an additional test for a rare neurological ...

Thangaratinam and colleagues aimed to shed light on the potential predictive value of using pulse oximetry to screen for significant cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD) in newborn infants. One ...

A new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows that the balance system can be assessed during the first months of ...