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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, ...

Early results from 4,000 babies show that genome sequencing picks up many more serious health conditions than standard newborn screening and is favored by most parents. Early results from a study of ...

Adding genomic sequencing to newborn blood screening would detect hundreds of additional childhood conditions, providing much earlier diagnosis and treatment, according to a new study. A baby's genome ...

A newborn can look perfectly healthy, pass a hearing test and still carry an infection that may affect hearing or development later in childhood. That is the challenge posed by congenital ...

The earlier diseases are diagnosed, the earlier they can be treated. Unfortunately, time is often of the essence for those with rare genetic disorders. For example, the few therapies that exist for ...

Yet, the effectiveness of genetic sequencing as an alternative method for NBS has not previously been studied. To evaluate the outcomes of applying gene panel sequencing as a first-tier newborn ...

“I think you always believe it’s never going to happen to me.” That is how one parent described learning that their newborn baby had been identified as being at possible risk of a rare genetic ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. A little over 40% of parents did not know about the ...

There are more than 25 million births recorded in India every year, yet only a small percentage of newborns get screened at birth for serious but treatable health conditions. In many cases, these ...

This test expands Roche's early diagnostics portfolio by screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID), and Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) simultaneously.