Newborn Screening — Setting Evidence-Based Policy for Protection

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In the early 1960s, a Massachusetts program for testing neonates for phenylketonuria became the first organized effort to screen newborns for genetic or metabolic disease in order to identify treatable disorders before they became symptomatic. Since that time, newborn-screening programs have expanded to include additional genetic and nongenetic conditions and have been implemented in all U.S. states, as well as...

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