Adding genomic sequencing to the standard newborn screening heel-prick test is changing how we diagnose kids with genetic ...

It’s a tragedy with few answers: Sudden infant death syndrome is the leading cause of death among babies from 1 month to 1 year old in the U.S. Affected infants generally appear healthy but die ...

Genomic newborn screening using whole-genome sequencing identified 1.6% of infants with high-chance, treatable genetic ...

Mere hours after birth, most newborns are tested for two things: whether they have signs of hearing loss and whether they have any of a range of rare conditions that could severely impact their health ...

The cancer was detected because he was enrolled in a "world-leading research study" which is screening 100,000 newborn babies ...

Australian researchers have discovered a possible cause for SIDS. Until now, doctors have had no idea what causes the fatal infant syndrome that kills babies under a year old. (Anthony Asael/Art in ...

Adding genomic sequencing to newborn blood screening would detect hundreds of additional childhood conditions, providing much ...

The family were taking part in a study which is screening newborn babies in England for dozens of genetic conditions.

In April 2018, Qadeer Ahmed’s son, Mohammad Khalid, was born 12 weeks prematurely and admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a private hospital in Kalaburagi, a city in India’s state ...

Nicholas White didn't even flinch. He kept sucking peacefully on his pacifier as the blood from the stick in his heel started to ooze. "Give him a minute," said lab assistant Rita Hamburg to those ...