This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The heel-stick test commonly used for screening newborns for a variety ...

A national study involving a UT Southwestern Medical Center neonatologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist suggests that a screening test routinely performed in newborns is not very good ...

The heel-stick procedure, a routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of ...

But the research – by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and published in Nature Medicine – has highlighted there are risks and greater costs if all ­babies receive genetic screening. For ...

A routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, the heel-stick procedure, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of ...