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 ...

Should all babies have their genomes sequenced at birth? The question has been hotly debated for the past 15 years. Unlocking the genome’s 3.2-billion-letter code promises understanding of both health ...

Newborn health screening is in flux at the federal level, but in Arizona, the state's program is expanding. Every year, ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Before leaving the hospital, most babies in the United States are screened for multiple genetic, endocrine, and metabolic disorders and conditions. The first part of the screening process consists 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 ...

Doctors have begun sequencing newborn DNA to detect dangerous but treatable conditions before any symptoms appear. In pilot ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — Detecting and treating hearing loss in the first few months of life is imperative a child's health. When it comes to premature babies, who can end up in the NICU for a long time, there's ...

There are plans to add two more genetic disorders for screening for Wisconsin’s newborn screening program. X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) and Mucopolysaccharidosis Type 1 (MPS 1) will be part ...