A committee of experts will conduct a study examining the current landscape of newborn screening (NBS) systems, processes, and research in the United States and consider sustainable adoption of ...

The United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation released the first guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), in order to improve timely detection of CF in infants from all racial and ...

More than a decade ago, researchers launched the BabySeq Project, a pilot program to return newborn genomic sequencing results to parents and measure the effects on newborn care. Today, over 30 ...

In April 2025, the federal government cut the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children.

UCSF Pediatrics Professor Jennifer Puck, MD, has spent decades pushing for universal newborn screening to detect severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), a rare but deadly genetic disorder. Today, ...

Shannon Smith describes her daughter's birth as not all that eventful. She and her husband drove 10 minutes from their home in rural Alabama across the state line to a hospital in Georgia where they ...

In Destiny’s Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, we envisioned a world where every newborn would be screened for genetic risks. We see a future in which the randomness of genetic inheritance ...

Arizona is expanding its newborn health screening program, even as the federal process for adding new disorders has stalled. The state plans to screen for 39 different rare disorders by 2027, up from ...