Congenital CMV is the most common nongenetic cause of hearing loss in children and a leading cause of other neurologic ...

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 ...

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Early results from a study of newborn screening methods show that DNA analysis picks up many more preventable or treatable serious health conditions than standard newborn screening and is favored by ...

U.K. health officials are facing pressure to rethink how they expand the list of diseases that all newborns are screened for ...

Pipeline tested on critically ill infants before rollout. Before screening healthy newborns, the team validated their analysis pipeline on 108 previously diagnosed infants, achieving over 97% ...

Laboratory tests are vital to diagnosing and treating children from infancy to adulthood. Join the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) and leading experts in laboratory medicine ...

The earlier diseases are diagnosed, the earlier they can be treated. Unfortunately, time is often of the essence for those with rare genetic disorders. For example, the few therapies that exist for ...

All states screen newborns for certain metabolic birth defects. (Metabolic refers to chemical changes that take place within living cells.) These conditions cannot be seen in the newborn, but can ...

The Minnesota Department of Health tests for over 60 different disorders during a newborn screening, and now, two more disorders have been added to the list. According to the Minnesota Department of ...