It was 50 years ago this month that the Journal of the American Medical Association published a letter from Robert Guthrie, UB professor of pediatrics and microbiology, reporting on a new test 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 ...
Each year, specimen samples are collected from more than four million infants shortly after birth and sent to public health laboratories across the US. These samples are then tested for between 26 and ...
With several potential therapies, including Sepiapterin (PTC Therapeutics), NGGT002 (NGGT), JNT-517 (Jnana Therapeutics), Pegvaliase (BioMarin), and others under investigation, the phenylketonuria ...
Shannon Smith describes her daughter's birth as not all that eventful. She and her husband drove 10 minutes from their home in rural Alabama across the state line to a hospital in Georgia where they ...
QUESTION: A friend of mine has a child who has a metabolic disorder that wasn’t diagnosed with routine newborn screening even though screening for the disorder does exist. How could that happen?
Abstract: The outcomes of a meeting that focused on the role of the residual dried blood spots from newborn screening for uses in the improvement of newborn screening are reported. Discussions of ...
It’s dinnertime on a Wednesday evening in June at the Wards’ house in Whitman, Massachusetts. As Karen Ward calls her three kids to the table, her husband, Patrick, prepares a special plate for their ...