Current Status of Newborn Screening in Southeastern Europe

Newborn screening: current status.

Newborn screening, which represents one of the major advances in child health of the past century, has been carried out in all fifty U.S. states since the 1970s. Newborn screening programs are state-run, and decisions are left to the individual states regarding the conditions to be screened for, the mechanism for confirmatory testing, follow-up care, and financing of the programs. Laboratory ad...

Current status of newborn screening worldwide: 2015.

Newborn screening describes various tests that can occur during the first few hours or days of a newborn's life and have the potential for preventing severe health problems, including death. Newborn screening has evolved from a simple blood or urine screening test to a more comprehensive and complex screening system capable of detecting over 50 different conditions. While a number of papers hav...

Newborn screening in India: current perspectives.

219 VOLUME 47__MARCH 17, 2010 Newborn screening aims at the earliest possible recognition of disorders to prevent the most serious consequences by timely intervention. Screening is not a confirmatory diagnosis and requires further investigations. Guidelines from some developed countries recommend newborn screening before discharge because of the high prevalence of certain endocrinopathies, meta...

Y Choromosomal Microdeletion Screening in The Workup of Male Infertility and Its Current Status in India

Thrombolytic therapy in Europe: current status.

Thrombolytic therapy is a practical, effective approach to the management of acute myocardial infarction that is widely used in Europe today. Early European trials demonstrated a clear reduction in mortality in patients who received thrombolytic therapy compared with those given conventional treatment. The findings of experimental studies suggest that early reperfusion of the infarct-related ar...