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 ...

The newborn screening market offers significant opportunities driven by rising neonatal populations and congenital disease ...

Routine newborn screening (NBS) has transformed early disease detection. However, traditional biochemical tests limit the ...

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, ...

The mother of a four-year-old boy with a rare muscle disease says screening newborn babies for the condition could "save ...

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 ...

Yet, the effectiveness of genetic sequencing as an alternative method for NBS has not previously been studied. To evaluate the outcomes of applying gene panel sequencing as a first-tier newborn ...

Lancet study proves that NHS refusing to screen for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) as part of the newborn heel prick test is ...

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Documents reveals shocking human cost of delaying NHS screening all babies for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) meaning 30 a ...