When a baby is born in the United States, a few drops of blood are taken from their heel to test for many conditions that could affect the child’s long-term health or survival. This testing is part of ...

The Utah Newborn Screening Program tests all newborns in Utah for over 40 medical conditions that can affect their growth, development, and long-term health. While many people associate newborn ...

My father makes every baby cry. Growing up, that’s what I told my friends when they asked what my scientist-doctor-dad had invented. They knew it had something to do with newborn babies, something to ...

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 ...

Charles Brokopp discusses the history of and advantages to screening newborns. Charles Brokopp, Director, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, offers the history of screening newborns which began 50 ...

The phenylketonuria (PKU) test is a diagnostic tool used to test infants for phenylketonuria a few days after birth. PKU is an autosomal recessive inborn error of ...

Newborn screening is the first and perhaps the most successful example of population-wide genetic testing. Performed within the first few days of life, drops of blood are collected from a newborn's ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Within a few days after birth, babies around the world undergo a quick needle prick to the heel. The blood drop that results is used to detect as many as 50 genetic disorders so that, ...

Within a few days after birth, babies around the world undergo a quick needle prick to the heel. The blood drop that results is used to detect as many as 50 genetic disorders so that, if found, they ...