Newborn Screening: News & Resources Page
Newborn Screening in the News
12/19/07 -
National Football League
Partners with the Hunter’s Hope Foundation for National Awareness of Universal
Newborn Screening
12/17/07 -
Legislation Will Create the Hunter Kelly Research Program at the National
Institutes of Health
11/19/07 - U.S. Senate HELP
Committee Passes Bill S.1858-Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act
9/17/07
-
Consumer Taskforce on Newborn Screening Established
6/28/07
- Hillary Clinton: Clinton and
Reynolds Introduce the Screening for Health of Infants and Newborns (SHINE) Act
of 2007
10/03/06 -
Senator
Clinton Introduces Bill to Help Detect and Prevent Disorders in Infants
9/29/05 -
Newborn
Screenings Detect Rare Ailments - The Associated Press
5/30/05 - Rare
But Deadly - U.S. News and World Report
5/12/05 - AAP
ENDORSES NEWBORN SCREENING REPORT FROM THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS
3/12/05 - Early
screening can save lives - The Kentucky Post, Kentucky/Cincinnati
1/31/05 - Newborn
Blood to Tell More - St. Petersburg Times, FL
1/24/05 - Babies
to be tested for metabolic illness - Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City,
UT
11/17/04 - Newborn
Screenings - News 14, Raleigh, NC
10/27/04 - GOVERNOR
ANNOUNCES HISTORIC EXPANSION OF NEWBORN SCREENING - New York State Press
Office, Albany, NY
9/22/04 - Federal
Panel Want Standards When Testing Newborns For Disorders - WBAL-TV, Baltimore,
MD
9/21/04 - Expanded
Newborn Testing is Urged - The Wall Street Journal
7/01/04 - Great
News For Infants In Tennessee - WTVF, Nashville, TN
6/22/04 - Hall
of Famer Jim Kelly urges more screening of newborns - (AP) Democrat and Chronicle,
Rochester, NY
6/17/04 - A
Drop of Blood Saves One Baby; Another Falls Ill - The Wall Street Journal
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6/14/04 - Senator
Dodd Conducts Hearing on Newborn Screening
6/11/04 - Life-saving
sibling,Family reflects need for newborn screening - Brainerd Dispatch, Brainerd,
MN
Spring 2004 - Tandem
Mass Spectrometry for the Direct Assay of Enzymes in Dried Blood Spots: Application
to Newborn Screening for Krabbe Disease - Clinical Chemistry
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Newborn Screening Resources
Links
Federal
Government Newborn Screening Advisory Committee
National
Conference of State Legislatures - Information regarding NBS legislation
in each state
New York Newborn
Screening Program
Hunter's Hope Contacts
Hunter's Hope Foundation: 1-877-984-HOPE
Jacque Waggoner, C.E.O. Hunter's
Hope
Funding for this page was made available by the Katherine & John Mac Donald
Foundation established in 1968 and the Marjorie Joyce Simmons Memorial
Fund established in 1990 through a grant from the Community Foundation
for Greater Buffalo.
The information presented
here is intended for educational purposes only. If you have specific
questions regarding a personal condition, please seek the advice of a
qualified healthcare professional.
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