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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- September is newborn screening awareness month and Valley hospitals are working toward getting 100 percent of babies tested. Before a baby can be brought home from a hospital ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing the first screening test for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) in newborns. The EnLite Neonatal TREC Kit, manufactured by ...

Twenty years ago, cystic fibrosis wasn’t a household term for me. Today, cystic fibrosis — a genetic disorder that causes a buildup of thick, sticky mucus that can damage organs, especially the lungs ...

Seattle Children's is partnering on the launch of a study called the 'Oto-Acoustic Signals in SIDS' (OASIS) study that will investigate a possible association between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ...

WAHOO - Ray and Louise Spiering wanted to observe a period of silence after their daughter Melynda's birth. What they got was an uproar. To the Spierings, Nebraska's requirement that newborn babies ...

Jesy Nelson reveals petition for SMA1 screening at birth after twins’ diagnosis - The 34-year-old announced on Sunday that her twin daughters have been diagnosed with the severe muscular disease.