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 ...
U.K. health officials are facing pressure to rethink how they expand the list of diseases that all newborns are screened for ...
February is Rare Disease month, and two Utah families are leading the way in newborn screening for Creatine Deficiency.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago launched a newborn screening awareness campaign, with signage on public transit and billboards across Chicago urging parents to contact their child ...
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 ...
For most parents, newborn screening tests are a barely perceptible safety net. But for the small minority whose babies get diagnosed with a serious but treatable illness, the tests can be lifesaving.
Congenital CMV is the most common nongenetic cause of hearing loss in children and a leading cause of other neurologic ...
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 ...