Thanks in part to federal funding for newborn hearing screening, about 98% of newborns are screened for hearing loss before ...

Newborn screening tests are ... congenital heart disease and hearing loss. If you feel your baby should be screened for tests not offered through your state's program, let your doctor know.

In April, the Deparment of Health and Human Services shuttered the committe that oversaw newborn screenings. Advocates hope it can be reinstated.

Against this background, the NIH introduced the program of universal screening of newborn infants for hearing loss which developed and spread to its present extent. The early development of ...

While all states have a newborn screening program, the number of conditions ... and gave recommendations to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The volunteer-only ...

One of the great successes of public health in the US is the newborn screening program, which tests infants ... during the diagnosis and beyond. Hearing loss and deafness offer a useful example ...

Minnesota's new universal newborn screening program for congenital cytomegalovirus ... of the Minnesota Department of Health in Saint Paul, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

as well as variation in specific forms of hearing loss between populations. An extraordinarily successful newborn screening program has been implemented in Poland; as of the summer of 2004 ...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the speech and language development of children with bilateral hearing loss ... without this screening program. CONCLUSION: Hospital-based newborn hearing screening programs ...

The program helps states coordinate newborn hearing screening and respond ... an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that was less affected by cuts.