Close to 4 million babies are born in the United States every year, and within their first 48 hours nearly all are pricked in the heel so their blood can be tested for dozens of life-threatening ...

Advances in modern medicine allow us to treat fetuses and newborn babies for genetic or inherited diseases. Advances in modern medicine allow us to treat fetuses and newborn babies for genetic or ...

A routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, the heel-stick procedure, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of ...

What would happen if every newborn's genes were sequenced at birth? That's the question the BabySeq study has been trying to answer for a decade. Its newest results suggest that genetic information ...

Currently, babies are given the newborn blood spot test, formerly called the heel prick test, to check for 10 serious ...