The Future of Newborn Screening
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A vision of the future of newborn screening.
In 40 years, newborn screening has evolved to become a standard component of preventive public health. Despite its widespread acceptance, efforts need to be made to overcome some significant problems. There is inequity in the conditions for which states screen routinely, and many conditions that could be screened for are not, for economic or logistic reasons. Existing (tandem mass spectrometry)...
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عنوان ژورنال: North Carolina Medical Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0029-2559,0029-2559
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.80.1.28