Are you planning to get a baby? Protect your child by screening for hereditary disorders that you may pass to them ...

Newborn screening is a fundamental right for every child, crucial for early diagnosis and intervention of preventable ...

A new study claims that over 1 billion young people are at risk of losing their hearing due to unsafe listening practices.

A new study claimed that over 1 billion younger people could be at risk of hearing loss due to "unsafe listening," especially ...

Testing of an infant's father in addition to the standard prenatal screening of the mother can more accurately identify the ...

Dominika's one-day-old daughter Emilia is part of the screening programme The entire genetic code of up to 100,000 newborn babies in England will be analysed by the NHS, with the aim of speeding ...

Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here.The board of the Georgia Department of Public Health is set to meet next week for the first time in six months. The nine-member board is ...

The Madras High Court has come to the rescue of a Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) engineer suffering from 100% hearing and speech impairment and facing the threat of discharge from service for not ...

A preliminary hearing has been set for the suspected driver who fled an attempted traffic stop at midnight Saturday leading to a high-speed chase, a four-car crash and an extensive search by law ...

For example, if a woman at high risk has a close relative who was diagnosed with breast cancer, “a general rule is to start screening high-risk women 10 years prior to the age of that diagnosis ...

When unrecognized, PKU results in high ... of newborn screening. Lastly, some issues might be more deemed technical. What genomic diseases should be included? Do we include the untreatable, and if so, ...

Millions who could benefit from hearing aids have never tried them. Cost, access to health care and stigma create major barriers, even though the devices are available over-the-counter.