California is partnering with nonprofit Baby2Baby to provide new parents with 400 free diapers, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced ...

Critical congenital heart diseases, or CCHDs, are a group of life-threatening structural heart defects present at birth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in four ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The at-home, HPV self-collection kit allows patients to collect their own sample and mail it to a laboratory for ...

Following the Delhi government’s announcement of the Advanced Newborn Monitoring and Optimal Lifecare (ANMOL) scheme, doctors in the Capital said the expanded screening will enable early diagnosis of ...

The survival rate in infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare hereditary disease that prevents the body from producing immune cells, is 96% when they receive a bone marrow transplant in ...

The National Screening Room is a massive online repository that puts cinema’s most influential films at the tips of your fingers. And to watch them, all you have to do is click “play.” In Tuesday’s ...

Massachusetts is poised to become the next state to pilot an expanded genomic screening study that could identify hundreds of rare diseases in newborns, Boston Children’s Hospital’s chief of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — New parents may cringe thinking about the heel pricks routinely done after a baby is born and then again two weeks later, but the required screening saves lives. "I have had cases ...

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has updated its guidelines to include self-collection testing for cervical cancer screening for women aged 30-65 with average risk. Cervical ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is endorsing self-collected vaginal samples for cervical cancer screening and requiring most private insurance plans to cover testing without cost sharing.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has added two rare congenital neurologic disorders — Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) — to the newborn ...

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