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A 25-Year Retrospective on Bavaria’s Newborn Screening Programme: Achievements, Challenges and Long-Term Follow-Up

International Journal of Neonatal Screening
The German federal state of Bavaria implemented newborn screening (NBS) using dried blood spots (DBS) as an integrated public health programme with centralised coordination.
Uta Nennstiel, Inken Brockow, Birgit Odenwald, Carola Marzi, Marianne Hanauer, Esther Maier, Wulf Röschinger, Ralph Fingerhut, Bernhard Liebl   +8 more
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Cystic fibrosis fact sheet

, 2006
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Routine examination of the newborn: the EMREN study. Evaluation of an extension of the midwife role including a randomised controlled trial of appropriately trained midwives and paediatric senior house officers. [PDF]

, 2004
OBJECTIVES: To assess the implications and cost-effectiveness of extending the role of midwives to include the routine (24-hour) examination of the healthy newborn usually carried out by junior doctors. DESIGN: The study included a prospective randomised
Tomlin, M., J Townsend, C Rogers, Bloomfield, L., Wolke, D., Townsend, J., J Hayes, Rogers, C, Davé, S, D Messer, E Quist-Therson, Quist-Therson, E, Hayes, J., Quist-Therson, E., Hayes, J, Townsend, J, Rogers, C., L Bloomfield, Messer, D, D Wolke, Wolke, Dieter, Wolke, D, Dave, S., S Davé, Tomlin, M, M Tomlin, Bloomfield, L, Messer, D.   +27 more
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Cellularized Skin Substitute Bioengineering for Regenerative Medicine: Cell Sources, Culture Strategies, and Transition Toward Defined, Xeno‐Free Culture Systems

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Advances in cell sources, bioengineering, and manufacturing are reshaping the design of skin substitutes. This review highlights emerging strategies driving skin tissue engineering and discusses their potential to enable safer, reproducible, and clinically accessible skin substitutes for regenerative medicine.
Gilles Lemaître, Marina Trouillas, Tatiana Vinasco‐Sandoval, Cécile Giordano, Alexandre G. Lellouch, Walid Rachidi, Jean‐Jacques Lataillade, Nicolas O. Fortunel   +7 more
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Validation on the First-Tier Fully Automated High-Throughput SMN1, SMN2, TREC, and RPP30 Quantification by Quadruplex Droplet Digital PCR for Newborn Screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

International Journal of Neonatal Screening
Newborn screening (NBS) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) faces challenges. Accurate and precise SMN1 and SMN2 copy number determination, confirmed by two orthogonal methods, are vital for SMA prognostication ...
Chloe Miu Mak, Timothy Yiu Cheong Ho, Man Kwan Yip, Felicite Enyu Song, Raymond Chiu Mo Tam, Leanne Wing Ying Yu, Ann Anhong Ke, Eric Chun Yiu Law, Toby Chun Hei Chan, Matthew Chun Wing Yeung   +9 more
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miR-149 inhibits cell proliferation and enhances chemosensitivity by targeting CDC42 and BCL2 in neuroblastoma

Cancer Cell International, 2019
Background Neuroblastoma (NB) is one of most common childhood tumors with high mortality among children worldwide. microRNAs (miRNAs) have been reported to play essential roles in the pathogenesis and therapeutics of NB.
Fengxia Mao, Ju Zhang, Xinru Cheng, Qianya Xu   +3 more
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Economic evaluation of emergency obstetric care training: a systematic review

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Training healthcare providers in Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) has been shown to be effective in improving their capacity to provide this critical care package for mothers and babies.
Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Megan Wilson-Jones, Barbara Madaj, Nynke van den Broek   +3 more
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Optical Detection of Cellular Signals at Material Interfaces

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Emerging functional materials are transforming optical detection of cellular signals. This review highlights optical techniques that exploit the unique optical properties of diverse materials to detect and quantify cellular electrical, chemical, and mechanical signals, and discusses key opportunities and challenges.
Xuchen Ren, Jitong Ren, Zixin Zhang, Koney Eungkon Kim, Francis L. Hong, Yuecheng Peter Zhou   +5 more
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Slowing fetal growth velocity from the mid-trimester may signal increased risks of perinatal morbidity and mortality: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Medicine
Background Undetected fetal growth restriction is a major risk factor for stillbirth. Detecting small babies is a cornerstone of obstetric care, but we fail to detect most uteroplacental insufficiency impairing fetal growth, and most small fetuses ...
Chloe Jamieson-Grigg, Pawel Kalinowski, Stephen Tong, Esther Turner, Sarah A. Banting, Susan P. Walker, Teresa M. MacDonald   +6 more
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Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Metabolic Disease Screening Among Newborns; a Report of a Work Group [PDF]

Increasingly, tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is being used for newborn screening because this laboratory testing technology substantially increases the number of metabolic disorders that can be detected from dried blood-spot specimens.

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