The number of treatments for rare genetic disorders is expected to increase sharply in the next several years.

Newswise — How can a seemingly healthy newborn have a genetic disorder? Kimberly Chapman, MD, PhD, Section Chief, Medical Genetics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles explains how newborn screening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several days after leaving the hospital, Popps received a call informing her that Leo's newborn screening test showed results that ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has added two rare congenital neurologic disorders — Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) — to the newborn ...

Your baby’s newborn screening may include testing for certain amino acid metabolism disorders. These rare health conditions affect a body’s metabolism. Metabolism is the way your body changes food ...

(HealthDay) -- Routine newborn screening failed to identify about one-fifth of infants with an adrenal gland disorder called congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a new study has found. This genetic ...

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 ...

I got a blood test as a newborn that changed the course of my life forever. The test, part of newborn screening performed on babies across the U.S. led to my being diagnosed with a rare inherited ...

Two new disorders can now be detected under North Carolina's newborn screening program, an advancement in care as the program ...

Rep. Nick Langworthy recently announced the introduction of the bipartisan Surge to Save Newborns Act, bipartisan legislation ...

WHEN pop star Jesy Nelson found out that her twin daughters were likely to never walk or talk, she was sickened to discover ...

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, along with Lieutenant-Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Tuesday launched several healthcare initiatives under the ‘Seva Sankalp Abhiyan’, including an expanded ANMOL scheme ...