Newborn screening (NBS) as a public heath endeavor faces a complex array of needs, competing priorities, and viewpoints. NBS programs, federal agency partners, families, care providers, and many ...

Legal challenges have pushed back against various state retention policies and specific uses of dried blood spots, from secondary research to law enforcement investigations. These challenges have ...

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, ...

This program ensures all babies are screened for certain genetic disorders before serious health problems develop. Our goal is to identify disorders early so that serious health conditions can be ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - According to the American Optometric Association, infants need to have their first comprehensive eye exam before they turn one. At birth babies start to explore the world ...

Early detection of rare but treatable diseases has long been one of public health’s quiet triumphs, sparing thousands of infants each year from preventable harm. The Advisory Committee on Heritable ...

Shannon Smith describes her daughter's birth as not all that eventful. She and her husband drove 10 minutes from their home in rural Alabama across the state line to a hospital in Georgia where they ...

When a baby is born in the United States, a few drops of blood are taken from their heel to test for many conditions that could affect the child’s long-term health or survival. This testing is part of ...

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 ...

Newborn screening (NBS) is a public health service available to approximately 3.6 million infants born in the United States each year. Over 98 percent of those infants receive screening. State and ...