INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A new screening for newborns could expand the number of genetic diseases infants are tested for before they leave the hospital. The project is called BeginNGS, with the NGS ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with U.S. Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Experts argued against screening all newborns for developmental disorders, saying it would worsen disparities.

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 ...

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% ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Department of Health tests for over 60 different disorders during a newborn screening, and now, two more disorders have been added to the list. According to the Minnesota Department of ...