Preterm babies face greater health risks from the moment they are born. Their organs, immune systems, and metabolic pathways are not fully developed, making them more vulnerable to complications.

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Salt Lake City parents Trey and Heidi Wallis say that their daughter's life could be much different had their state offered more comprehensive newborn screening. A simple newborn screening for a ...

Playing a Mozart lullaby may help reduce the pain experienced by newborn babies undergoing a heel prick blood test, according to a randomized, blinded clinical trial involving 100 infants published in ...

The former Little Mix singer's daughters have been diagnosed with the severe muscular disease SMA1 (spinal muscular atrophy) ...

The door has finally opened on screening newborn babies for pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy (PDE), a severe inherited metabolic disorder. This screening promises to enable better and earlier treatment ...

A test for a degenerative condition that an MP said “stole” a seven-year-old boy’s smile could be added to the heel prick ...