When a baby is born in the United States, a few drops of blood are taken from their heel to test for many conditions that could affect the child’s long-term health or survival. This testing is part of ...

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 ...

A long-running spat over archived newborn blood samples continues to rile the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom, a Minnesota-based patient-rights group. Proponents say the screenings for medical ...

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 ...

Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a ...

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.

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 ...