A committee of experts will conduct a study examining the current landscape of newborn screening (NBS) systems, processes, and research in the United States and consider sustainable adoption of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Leadership and coordination at the national level are needed to build on the strength of screening programs that test all newborn babies’ blood for serious health conditions and to ensure ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cystic fibrosis screening varies widely from state to state. Testing for only a small number of gene variants ...

‘BEACONS,’ a multi-state collaboration led by Mass General Brigham and Ariadne Labs, will enroll up to 30,000 newborns to explore adding genomic sequencing in U.S. newborn screening Funded by a $14.4 ...

Mass General Brigham and Ariadne Labs, alongside Boston Children's Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), Case Western Reserve University, ...

Routine newborn screening (NBS) has transformed early disease detection. However, traditional biochemical tests limit the ...

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