This public workshop examined the ethical, legal, social, and policy issues associated with the access to, use, and storage of dried blood spot samples from newborn screening tests. The workshop ...

Twenty-one families took the state of Minnesota to court, forcingchanges regarding how long the state can keep bloodspots taken from newborns for screening. The families argued that the Minnesota ...

Experts in the field of newborn screening say that turnaround time — how quickly a blood sample is obtained after birth and sent to the lab to be analyzed — is a key measure of a successful newborn ...

As newborn screening programs expand to include babies’ entire genomes, parents must be made aware of the privacy risks and states must create rules to rein in unbridled police access to this data.

Two babies were born with the same rare disease, in the same state, in hospitals only about an hour's drive apart. One was born on a Tuesday and is now a healthy toddler. The other was born on a ...

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 ...

A retrospective analysis on newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) provides further evidence for the benefits of early identification and treatment of the disease. Over the years, a ...