newborns Archives - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/newborns/ Healthcare technology news, life science current events Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:17:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://medcitynews.com/uploads/2021/03/cropped-mblue-32x32.png newborns Archives - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/newborns/ 32 32 40682243 How Genome Sequencing Can Broaden the Scope of Newborn Screening https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/genome-sequencing-newborn-screening-rare-disease-rti-international-unc/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/genome-sequencing-newborn-screening-rare-disease-rti-international-unc/#respond Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:31:38 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=649545

Standard newborn screening can detect dozens of inherited diseases, but genomics technology enables testing for hundreds of them. A North Carolina program evaluating the feasibility of bringing genomics to newborn screening is expanding with an initial goal of testing 5,000 babies in the next year.

]]> https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/genome-sequencing-newborn-screening-rare-disease-rti-international-unc/feed/ 0 649545 The photos of newborns posted online by hospitals and third parties pose identity theft risk https://medcitynews.com/2018/05/hospital-nursery-photos-and-identity-theft-risk/ https://medcitynews.com/2018/05/hospital-nursery-photos-and-identity-theft-risk/#respond Fri, 11 May 2018 20:05:25 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=441869

Having a new child is a joyous occasion. It should not be a time when that new child is potentially being set up for identity theft.

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