Newborn screenings
Posted Jan 5, 2010 8:14 am.
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Duke University researchers are working on a way to test newborns for rare diseases and move more quickly to treat them.
Doctors in the U.S. are giving some babies a battery of tests to see if they have bubble-boy disease, Pompe disease and Krabbe disease among others.
Since 2004, specialists have urged that every U.S. newborn be tested for 29 rare but devastating genetic diseases using a single heel-prick of blood.
