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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Department of Health has finished destroying thousands of newborn blood-spot samples after a legal challenge forced the action. The Citizens' Council for Health Freedom, a Minnesota ...

One of the most successful public health stories in U.S. history — the nation’s newborn screening program — was the subject of a recent reauthorization hearing held by the House Committee on Energy ...

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 ...

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, ...

Robert Guthrie, a UB faculty member and physician at the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital from 1958-86, developed the blood spot test to screen for the genetic disorder called phenylketonuria (PKU) ...

The earlier diseases are diagnosed, the earlier they can be treated. Unfortunately, time is often of the essence for those with rare genetic disorders. For example, the few therapies that exist for ...