Screening Information
How Do I Get Additional Screening For My Child?
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to the questions that many parents frequently ask.
What Do Your State and Your Hospital Screen For?
Find out how your state and your hospital stack up.
What Does Your Canadian Province Screen For?
Find out how your province stacks up.
Benefits of Comprehensive Screening
Early detection of disorders and conditions detectable through comprehensive newborn screening (CNBS) is vital.
Problems in Newborn Screening
Although disorder disparity has been the "poster child" for problems in newborn screening, needed improvements are not limited to just adding more disorders to the test.
Rare Diseases: Are They Really That Rare?
Did you know that that approximately one out of every 1,500 US babies will be born with a disease detectable through NBS?
Some SIDS Cases Can Be Solved: They Are Cases of Detectable Disorders
Most routine newborn screening tests do not screen children for the disorders that have been linked to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Because these children appear normal and healthy, it is not suspected that they have an underlying disorder that could cause sudden unexplained death. Even after death, many times these children are undiagnosed and said to be cases of SIDS. Proper comprehensive screening would allow diagnosis and treatment of these disorders, thus allowing most of these children to avoid early death and to live normal lives.
A Parent's Guide To Newborn Screening Handout
An information handout, entitled "A Parent's Guide to Newborn Screening", supplies information on newborn screening and is written specifically for new and expectant parents. The handouts are intended to be given to expectant parents during the third-trimester of pregnancy.
Technology Catapulted Screening Into A New Dimension
Tandem mass spectrometry enables more than 30 additional diseases to be added to the screening test.
Interesting Facts About Newborn Screening
Did You Know . .
- Less than 10% of babies born in the US currently get comprehensive screening for all metabolic, endocrine and hematologic disorders already detectable through existing routine newborn screening programs.
- Six babies are born everyday in the US alone that have disorders detectable through newborn screening, but go undetected because they aren't screened.
- Newborn screening can detect more than 35 disorders.
- Most disorders detectable through newborn screening are treated by diet restrictions.
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