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International Journal of Neonatal Screening, Volume 8, Issue 4

December 2022 - 17 articles

Cover Story: Each year almost 4 million newborns are screened for treatable conditions using both physiological and blood-based methods. Expansion of newborn screening (NBS) to include more conditions is usually triggered by the development of novel technologies to screen, diagnose, and/or treat disease. Discoveries of interventions for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) have led to research to determine if early identification through NBS leads to improved health outcomes. This issue of IJNS features an innovative model of piloting NBS for DMD using a consortia approach led by an advocacy group partnering with a state NBS program, a foundation, and multiple birth hospitals. The first year of a two-year DMD pilot demonstrates a useful model of collaboration to establish an evidence base to advance NBS. View this paper
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,067 Views
11 Pages

Evaluation of a New Laboratory Protocol for Newborn Screening for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in New Zealand

  • Mark R. de Hora,
  • Natasha L. Heather,
  • Dianne R. Webster,
  • Benjamin B. Albert and
  • Paul L. Hofman

Between 2005 and 2021, 49 cases of classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia were diagnosed in New Zealand, 39 were detected in newborns and 10 were not detected by screening. Currently, for every case of CAH detected by screening, 10 false-positive t...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,595 Views
3 Pages

It has recently been announced that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has approved the recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC) to add mucopolysaccharidosis type...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,571 Views
14 Pages

Our objective was to develop and test a new approach to obtaining parental policy guidance about disclosure of incidental findings of newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), including heterozygote carrier status and the conditions known as CFTR-r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,133 Views
30 Pages

Genomic advances have contributed to a proliferation of newborn screening (NBS) programs. Psychosocial consequences of NBS have been identified as risks to these public health initiatives. Following PRISMA guidelines, this systematic review synthesiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,833 Views
8 Pages

Changes in the Incidence of Infantile Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Shikoku, Japan between 2011 and 2020

  • Kentaro Okamoto,
  • Hisahide Nishio,
  • Takahiro Motoki,
  • Toshihiro Jogamoto,
  • Kaori Aibara,
  • Yoichi Kondo,
  • Kentaro Kawamura,
  • Yukihiko Konishi,
  • Chiho Tokorodani and
  • Ritsuo Nishiuchi
  • + 1 author

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder. Al-though there was no cure for SMA, newly developed therapeutic drugs (nusinersen, onasemnogene abeparvovec, and risdiplam) have been proven effective for the improvemen...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,814 Views
9 Pages

Newborn screening was established over 50 years ago to identify cases of disorders that were serious, urgent, and treatable, mirroring the criteria of Wilson and Jungner. In the last decade, conditions have been added to newborn screening that do not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,405 Views
15 Pages

Newborn Screening for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: First Year Results of a Population-Based Pilot

  • Michael J. Hartnett,
  • Michele A. Lloyd-Puryear,
  • Norma P. Tavakoli,
  • Julia Wynn,
  • Carrie L. Koval-Burt,
  • Dorota Gruber,
  • Tracy Trotter,
  • Michele Caggana,
  • Wendy K. Chung and
  • Niki Armstrong
  • + 1 author

Advancements in therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have made diagnosis within the newborn period a high priority. We undertook a consortia approach to advance DMD newborn screening in the United States. This manuscript describes the form...

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