The mother of a four-year-old boy with a rare muscle disease says screening newborn babies for the condition could "save ...

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 ...

Ex-Little Mix singer Jesy Nelson met Wes Streeting in Parliament to demand newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA ...

Lancet study proves that NHS refusing to screen for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) as part of the newborn heel prick test is ...

UCSF Pediatrics Professor Jennifer Puck, MD, has spent decades pushing for universal newborn screening to detect severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), a rare but deadly genetic disorder. Today, ...

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 ...

The 34-year-old announced on Sunday that her twin daughters have been diagnosed with the severe muscular disease.

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 ...

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