Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged in office to make Americans healthier, with a specific focus on reducing health burdens among children. But his department this ...

Expanding newborn screening (NBS) to include identifying genes associated with an increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) would cause more harm than good, according to an article ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Experts argued against screening all newborns for developmental disorders, saying it would worsen disparities.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, D ...

Pipeline tested on critically ill infants before rollout. Before screening healthy newborns, the team validated their analysis pipeline on 108 previously diagnosed infants, achieving over 97% ...

Plummeting costs of DNA sequencing technologies are injecting urgency into the longstanding debate over whether to dive deeper into the genomes of more infants — even apparently healthy ones. Experts ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD®) today published a new report on the critical role that leftover newborn screening samples play in public ...

Sen. Becky Massey, R-Knoxville, represents District 6 in the Tennessee Senate. Rep. David Hawk, R-Greeneville, represents District 5 in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Tennessee is a national ...

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 ...