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 ...

Gene therapies can now prevent newborns with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) being left paralysed - but only if administered at birth before damage has occurred ...

Soon after birth, a baby's blood is sampled and tested for a number of rare inherited conditions, such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. A new study describes a novel newborn screening test ...

As with normal infants with transient asymptomatic hypoglycemia, there is no evidence that identification and treatment of low glucose levels in infants of diabetic mothers, late preterm, small for ...