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 ...

Routine newborn screening (NBS) has transformed early disease detection. However, traditional biochemical tests limit the range of conditions that can be identified at birth. Next-generation ...

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 ...

This article is authored by Chandra Ganjoo, group Chief Executive Office, Trivitron Healthcare.

Yet, the effectiveness of genetic sequencing as an alternative method for NBS has not previously been studied. To evaluate the outcomes of applying gene panel sequencing as a first-tier newborn ...

Before your baby says their first word, their ability to hear it matters. This National Newborn Screening Awareness Month, WTOP explores why early hearing tests are essential for newborns — and what ...

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 ...

Newborn screening, which represents one of the major advances in child health of the past century, has been carried out in all fifty U.S. states since the 1970s. New-born screening programs are ...

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Critical congenital heart diseases, or CCHDs, are a group of life-threatening structural heart defects present at birth.