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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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% ...

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 ...

(InvestigateTV) — Rare disorders and conditions are caught in more than 12,000 babies born every year because of newborn screening done across the United States. But despite the critical need, an ...

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 ...