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Biomedicines, 2023 One of the main challenges of newborn screening programs, which screen for inherited metabolic disorders, is cutting down on false positives (FPs) in order to avoid family stresses, additional analyses, and unnecessary costs.
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International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2022 A national protocol for structured follow-up and texting of repeat newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) sample requests was introduced. Repeat samples are needed where the initial sample is inadequate or the result borderline-positive.
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Successful Implementation of Newborn Screening for Hemoglobin Disorders in the Philippines
International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2021 The Philippine newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) program began in 1996 with 24 hospitals and was formalized by legislation in 2004. The NBS panel was recently expanded to include a number of additional hereditary congenital conditions.
Carmencita D. Padilla +15 more
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International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2021 Promising treatments for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of infant mortality, prompted calls for inclusion in newborn screening (NBS).
Binod Kumar +6 more
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International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2022 Newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) began as a research project in the Philippines in 1996 and was mandated by law in 2004. The program initially included screening for five conditions, with a sixth added in 2012.
Carmencita D. Padilla +16 more
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Introducing Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency—The New Zealand Experience
International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2022 Screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) was added to the New Zealand national newborn screening programme in December 2017. Documentation pertaining to the application to add SCID to the panel and screening results over the first three ...
Natasha Heather +5 more
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Early Check: translational science at the intersection of public health and newborn screening
BMC Pediatrics, 2019 Background Newborn screening (NBS) occupies a unique space at the intersection of translational science and public health. As the only truly population-based public health program in the United States, NBS offers the promise of making the successes of ...
Donald B. Bailey +23 more
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International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2023 Newborn screening using dried blood spots (NBS) is widely acknowledged as a highly successful procedure in secondary prevention. For a number of congenital disorders, severe disability or death are impressively prevented by early detection and early ...
Birgit Odenwald +4 more
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SUMA Technology and Newborn Screening Tests for Inherited Metabolic Diseases in Cuba
Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening, 2016 The ultramicroanalytic system (SUMA), created in the 1980s, is a complete system of reagents and instrumentation to perform ultramicroassays combining the sensitivity of the micro-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests with the use of ...
Ernesto Carlos González Reyes PhD +12 more
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International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2020 Newborn Bloodspot Screening (NBS) has existed for over 60 years, having been initiated by Guthrie in the U.S. In the Philippines, NBS was introduced in 1996 and later was supported by legislation. The NBS program now includes 29 conditions, covering 91.6%
Carmencita D. Padilla +9 more
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