Preterm birth can be severely harmful to neonates. Currently, no effective clinical treatments target in utero inflammation ...

There is more published research examining newborn screening (NBS) for cystic fibrosis (CF) than for any other condition.1 Overall, the evidence for clinical benefit supports this strategy in an ...

Care of children with metabolic diseases is complex, involving primary care physicians, metabolic specialists, genetic counselors, and metabolic nutritionists. Even when the initial screening is ...

3 Centre for Practice Changing Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 4 Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning ...

PHILADELPHIA — Hypercortisolism is tied to multiple cardio-renal-metabolic disorders, making cortisol level screening an important part of patient monitoring, according to speakers at the Heart ...

5q-Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive, autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease with an incidence of 1 in 14,848 births.1 SMA is characterised by proximal muscle weakness and in severe ...

Marina von Stackelberg · CBC News · Posted: Jun 17, 2025 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: June 17 ...

Major overhaul ordered for panel that sets Canada's cancer screening guidelines Marina von Stackelberg | CBC News | Posted: June 17, 2025 8:00 AM | Last Updated: June 17 ...

Objective To evaluate England’s NHS newborn sickle cell screening programme performance in children up to the age of 5 years. Design Cohort of resident infants with sickle cell disease (SCD) born ...

In a Harvard survey of 6147 people undergoing carrier screening, most participants did not receive pre- or post-test counseling (64.6% and 96.8%, respectively). 14 Even among those who tested ...

Screening can now determine their risk for an ever-growing list of conditions — including ones we can’t do much about.