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 ...

DNA sequencing offers opportunities for enhancing and expanding newborn screening for treatable conditions that affect children; pilot studies will be critical to refining key parameters for ...

The Nevada Newborn Screening Program screens all babies for serious, but often treatable, disorders. Many conditions are not easily recognizable at birth, and if left untreated, can cause serious ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cystic fibrosis screening varies widely from state to state. Testing for only a small number of gene variants ...

Your baby’s newborn screening may include testing for certain galactosemia disorders. These rare health conditions affect how a body breaks down galactose, a sugar found in all foods that contain milk ...

We show that clinically accredited genomic newborn screening can be delivered with short turnaround times, detects many more conditions than standard newborn screening, and is both clinically ...

Dr. James Gibson and his genetics clinic at Dell Children's Medical Center are expecting a first any day now: The first baby with a lysosomal storage disorder to come to the clinic for treatment ...

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