Arkansas’s newborn screening program will be expanded thanks to a $1.4 million federal grant awarded to a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences professor, according to a press release ...

New screening program improves odds of identifying infant ... the Washington State Department of Health reports. ... St. John’s newborn hearing program started a decade ago and tests about 1,000 ...

Prior to the introduction of the national Newborn Hearing Screening Programme it would take up to 4 years for a child to be identified as having a significant hearing impairment.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the costs and performance characteristics associated with the start-up phase of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programs, one utilizing automated auditory brainstem ...

Children with permanent hearing impairment who had newborn hearing screening vs behavioral distraction screening had better developmental outcomes and quality of life. News & Perspective Drugs ...

The Newborn Hearing Screening Programme hailed as a path breaking health initiative has enabled the screening of over 1.5 lakh infants in the state so far since taking off over 15 years ago.