The number of treatments for rare genetic disorders is expected to increase sharply in the next several years.

Newborn screening helps families and health care providers identify serious health conditions before symptoms appear. Performed shortly after birth, this routine test helps ensure babies receive ...

A newborn can look perfectly healthy, pass a hearing test and still carry an infection that may affect hearing or development ...

Roche (SIX: RO, ROP; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that TIB MOLBIOL, a subsidiary of Roche Diagnostics, has launched the ...

September is Newborn Screening Awareness Month, highlighting the importance of early detection and intervention for newborns. Here, Dr. Joshua Baker, attending physician in genetics, genomics and ...

Florida has launched a newborn genomic screening pilot program designed to test babies for more than 900 genetic conditions, making it the first state-funded initiative of its kind in the nation.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A baby can pass a newborn hearing screening and still develop hearing loss from congenital cytomegalovirus, ...

The assay operates on LightCycler systems and evaluates samples simultaneously for SCD, SMA, and SCID.

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 pop star Jesy Nelson found out that her twin daughters were likely to never walk or talk, she was sickened to discover ...

The NHS in-service evaluation will use the routine newborn blood spot, or heel-prick, test to screen babies for SMA A new NHS ...

Newborn babies to be tested for health condition affecting Jesy Nelson’s twins - The new scheme is being rolled out across ...