Purpose: We provide background information/education for national recommendations to include initial newborn screening dried bloodspot serial numbers in electronic birth registrations. Mutual data ...

Routine newborn screening (NBS) has transformed early disease detection. However, traditional biochemical tests limit the range of conditions that can be identified at birth. Next-generation ...

Every baby born in the United States is given a routine blood test to screen for dozens of inherited medical conditions. Now, the U.S. National Institutes of Health is exploring whether to use DNA ...

UCSF Pediatrics Professor Jennifer Puck, MD, has spent decades pushing for universal newborn screening to detect severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), a rare but deadly genetic disorder. Today, ...

When federal lawmakers set out to improve the nation's newborn screening programs in 2007, they succeeded in creating grants and increasing the number of conditions tested throughout the country. Yet ...

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 ...

Established in 2025, the Newborn Screening Collaborative (NBSC) is a volunteer group of patient advocacy, public health, and ...

The United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation released the first guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), in order to improve timely detection of CF in infants from all racial and ...

Minnesota's new universal newborn screening program for congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) identified infants with neurologic abnormalities and those at risk for permanent hearing loss who otherwise ...

The baby in Arkansas seems healthy at birth. Warm, fuzzy skin. A normal weight. But Aiden Cooper can't keep down formula. Don't worry, he's fine, doctors assure his mother as they leave the hospital.

Elisa Seegar’s son, Aidan, was 7 when he died from a rare condition that could have been treated early if he had been screened for it as a newborn. Although Florida is one of the states that screens ...