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 ...

Before your baby says their first word, their ability to hear it matters. This National Newborn Screening Awareness Month, WTOP explores why early hearing tests are essential for newborns — and what ...

Preterm babies face greater health risks from the moment they are born. Their organs, immune systems, and metabolic pathways are not fully developed, making them more vulnerable to complications.

I got a blood test as a newborn that changed the course of my life forever. The test, part of newborn screening performed on babies across the U.S. led to my being diagnosed with a rare inherited ...

Genetic newborn screening supports early identification of a child’s critical condition, guiding to a better start in life. Large-scale evidence shows that adding next-generation sequencing (NGS) as a ...

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 ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- September is newborn screening awareness month and Valley hospitals are working toward getting 100 percent of babies tested. Before a baby can be brought home from a hospital ...

An updated report on cystic fibrosis (CF) from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, in partnership with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and funded by the Centers for Disease Control ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing the first screening test for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) in newborns. The EnLite Neonatal TREC Kit, manufactured by ...

Seattle Children's is partnering on the launch of a study called the 'Oto-Acoustic Signals in SIDS' (OASIS) study that will investigate a possible association between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ...

For the first 1,000 days of my 7-year-old son’s life, my husband and I knew something was wrong with him —we just didn’t know what it was. As we watched Charlie struggle to get up off the floor, ...