The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on countries to expand newborn screening for birth defects, highlighting how ...

Birth defects are the primary cause of early miscarriage, stillbirth, perinatal mortality, and child disability. According to statistics, 800–1.2 million children are born with defects annually in ...

Newborn screening programs aim to enable earlier detection of serious conditions that can be treated or prevented in childhood. Newborn screening programs began in many countries in the 1960s and ...

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 ...

This program ensures all babies are screened for certain genetic disorders before serious health problems develop. Our goal is to identify disorders early so that serious health conditions can be ...

More than a decade ago, researchers launched the BabySeq Project, a pilot program to return newborn genomic sequencing results to parents and measure the effects on newborn care. Today, over 30 ...

New research from large population studies provides invaluable evidence on genome screening of newborn babies to reduce risks ...