50 years of newborn screening

Reflections on 50 years of newborn screening.

Newborn screening (NBS) began 50 years ago with the ability to screen for phenylketonuria from dried-blood spots and prevent long-term disability through dietary intervention. Now nearly all of the 4 million infants born in the United States are screened for a wide array of significant medical conditions by using dried-blood spots and pointof-care tests, leading to early diagnosis and treatment...

The political history of PKU: reflections on 50 years of newborn screening.

Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; and University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Address correspondence to Jeffrey P. Brosco, MD, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, PO Box 016820, Miami, FL 33101. E-mail: j...

Is colorectal cancer screening necessary before 50 years of age?

A Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in Iran

Objectives: In September 2002 University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences established a pilot universal newborn hearing screening program in two crowded maternity hospital in Tehran. Our objective was to assess the feasibility of implementing universal newborn hearing screening in IRAN. Methods: Between September 2002 and March 2004 a total of 7718 newborns were screened for heari...

50 years of Sterillium®