newborn screening
Status of Newborn Screening Programs in the United States
... to newborn screen- ing per se; however, reporting requirements under the state’s birth defects surveillance system and registry stat- ute (see citation above) include biochemical abnormal- ities, and the state ...
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We Need Expanded Newborn Screening
... of newborn screening, it is my belief that we are at the beginning of an even greater period of ...at screening newborn infants for infectious diseases: what might be screened and what would ...
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Reflections on 50 Years of Newborn Screening
... the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act authorized a federal advisory committee (the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children [ACHDNC]) to provide guidance to the Secretary of the ...
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Newborn screening in mucopolysaccharidoses
... confirmed low IDUA in the second sample were referred to the Clinical Newborn Screening Unit for clinical and biochemical evaluation. Molecular analysis of the IDUA gene was performed in all infants with ...
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Newborn Screening for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
... Committee on Fetus and Newborn: Screening of new- born infants for metabolic disease. : Screening for inherited diseases[r] ...
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State Laws Regarding the Retention and Use of Residual Newborn Screening Blood Samples
... The newborn screening statutes and regulations from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia were accessed on- line between November 2008 and April 2009 to determine the extent to which specific issues ...
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Newborn Screening for Pompe Disease
... Guthrie, newborn screening (NBS) is considered to be one of the great public health ...“ Newborn Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment for Pompe Disease ” guidance supplement, the Pompe Disease ...
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Examination of the Communication Practices Between State Newborn Screening Programs and the Medical Home
... officials, newborn screening program staff, and other ...National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center, the survey was sent via facsimile in August 2000 to newborn ...
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Newborn Screening Technology: Proceed With Caution
... that newborn screening is cost-effective when compared with other recommended medical expenditures,” but the report itself does not provide any evidence to sup- port this ...
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Newborn Screening for Biliary Atresia
... a screening tool but also for educating primary care physicians and parents, engendering awareness that there is an abnormal color to infant ...stool. Newborn screening for conjugated ...
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Introduction to the Newborn Screening Fact Sheets
... the newborn screening system as discussed earlier, will need to be familiar with these new disorders as they are added to screening panels or are diagnosed because the technology for newborn ...
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Newborn Screening Fact Sheets
... Newborn screening fact sheets were last revised in 1996 by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on ...the newborn screening fact sheets: biotinidase deficiency, congenital adrenal ...
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A Vision of the Future of Newborn Screening
... of newborn screening as a stand-alone test will create problems unless it is accompanied by major efforts to educate and to prepare health care profession- als and the public, as well as to provide the ...
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Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis in California
... Dr Lisa Prach (GDSP) assisted with analyses and an early version of the article. Ruth Koepke (GDSP) helped collect data from CFCs in the first few years of the California CF NBS program. Dr Iris Schrijver (Stanford ...
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American Academy of Pediatrics Newborn Screening Task Force Recommendations: How Far Have We Come?
... of newborn screening and ...provides newborn screening and genetic services information and resources to child health professionals, the public community, consumers, and state and federal ...
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Comprehensive Cost-Utility Analysis of Newborn Screening Strategies
... uria. PKU was associated with a risk of mild, moderate, or severe developmental delay and/or seizure disorder. CAH could lead to early childhood death (average life expectancy: 1 year). CH could cause mild, moderate, or ...
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Parents' Experiences of Expanded Newborn Screening Evaluations
... the screening evaluation process, most parents ex- pressed unshakable faith in the merits of newborn screening: “It is probably one of the best things that could be done for the health of a child!” ...
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Newborn Screening: A Blueprint for the Future Executive Summary: Newborn Screening Task Force Report
... only newborn screening tests, but also the entire newborn screening system, which includes short- term follow-up, diagnosis, treatment/management, and ...state newborn screening ...
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Preferences for aspects of antenatal and newborn screening: a systematic review
... This review has shown that DCEs and BWS are currently being under used to understand preferences for antenatal and newborn screening programmes. Multiple studies concluded that accuracy was the most ...
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Issues in State Newborn Screening Programs
... technical matters as the sensitivity and specificity of testing but also such issues as whether early detection of affected children actually improves their long-term prognosis and the e[r] ...
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