New Lab Matters: The promise and challenge of newborn screening in 2019
Newborn screening is a public health success story, ongoing for 56 years. On the one hand, new treatment and laboratory testing options open up the…
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Congratulations to 2019 APHL newborn screening award winners
At the 2019 Newborn Screening and Genetic Testing Symposium in early April, APHL presented awards to leaders in the field of newborn screening. We commend…
Enhancing detection of newborn screening conditions via data analytics
For over 50 years, newborn screening programs across the United States have implemented laboratory screening and follow-up programs to detect and report infants at high…
Lab Culture: Introducing PKU Life Podcast with Kevin Alexander
Fifty-five years ago, newborn screening was born. At the time, though, that little heel prick was performed to screen for only one condition: phenylketonuria (PKU).…
Improving newborn sickle cell screening in Africa: ‘We can affect change there just like we did in the US’
by Kim Krisberg In the US, nearly all children born with sickle cell disease survive into adulthood. Across the globe in sub-Saharan Africa, more than…
APHL Receives $7.5 Million Award to Strengthen Newborn Screening Systems
Congratulations to APHL's Newborn Screening and Genetics team and the NewSTEPs team! Below is the official announcement of the award. -- The Association of Public Health…
Lab Culture Ep. 11: What if there were no public health labs?
Maybe the saying is true: you don’t know what you had until it is gone. For the families in this episode, the absence of public…
APHL: President Trump’s FY 2019 budget request is “disheartening and disappointing”
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is very concerned about the decline in federal funding for public health functions such as detection, surveillance and…
Lab Culture Ep. 5: My Niece’s Positive Newborn Screen
Four years ago, as APHL joined with partners to celebrate the 50th anniversary of routine newborn screening in the United States, newborn screening hit more…
Making Sense of Newborn Screening Cut-off Values
Newborn screening is the practice of screening every baby in their first 24-48 hours of life for certain harmful or potentially fatal conditions that are…