testing tissue samples from newborns to detect abnormalities which may be associated with disease.
a preventive blood test for newborns to detect disease-related abnormalities or deficiencies in gene products.
Newborn screening can also be called neonatal screening. All screening on a newborn baby is called newborn (or neonatal) screening. There are different newborn screening tests, for example newborn screening includes hearing screening, hips screening and blood spot screening.
Testing done within days of birth to identify infants at increased risk for a specific genetic disorder so that treatment can begin as soon as possible; when a newborn screening result is positive, further diagnostic testing is usually required to confirm or specify the results and counseling is offered to educate the parents Related Terms: diagnostic testing ; screening ; sensitivity ; specificity
examining blood samples from a newborn infant to detect disease-related abnormalities or deficiencies in gene products.
a test done on every baby born in the United States within the first few days of life, to look for inherited, treatable, metabolic disorders.
Newborn screening is the process of testing newborn babies for treatable genetic, endocrinologic, metabolic and hematologic diseases. Robert Guthrie is given much of the credit for pioneering the earliest screening for phenylketonuria in the late 1960s using blood samples on filter paper obtained by pricking a newborn baby's heel on the second day of life to get a few drops of blood. In the United States, there were few federally sponsored government health programs in the 1960s and each state, and each Canadian province devised their own programs.