The doctor who oversees Mayo Clinic's newborn screening program warns that Wednesday's Minnesota Supreme Court decision against the program will hurt the children the screening aims to help. "There ...

As newborn screening programs expand to include babies’ entire genomes, parents must be made aware of the privacy risks and states must create rules to rein in unbridled police access to this data.

Newborn screenings are important for assuring the well-being and timely treatment of medical issues for infants. These screenings identify conditions that can impact a child’s health and even survival ...

The Minnesota Department of Health is beginning to destroy blood spot collection cards to comply with a ruling last year from the Minnesota Supreme Court. In November, the court sided with parents who ...

WASHINGTON - Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their four newborn children for routine genetic testing. But then they discovered that ...

ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Health Department says it will begin destroying newborn blood samples to comply with a recent court ruling. A group of parents filed a lawsuit saying state law barred the ...

A group of New Jersey parents filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the state’s practice of keeping newborn babies’ blood samples for 23 years without their parents’ knowledge. The state can ...

The state of Michigan must return or destroy dried blood samples from nine newborns or get approval from parents to keep them, according to the latest scathing opinion from a federal judge who found ...

Following the threat of a potential court fight from a federal lawsuit, the state Attorney General announced Thursday the state will establish new limits on using newborn blood samples in criminal ...

Moms describe the process, from decision to delivery day.

A baby at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida gets his foot pricked to run a simple blood test that can detect metabolic disorders. mhs Newborn screenings are important for assuring the ...