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WASHINGTON - Good news for the nation's babies: Nearly 90 percent of newborns are getting tested for a host of rare but devastating genetic disorders.
Since 2004, specialists have urged that every U.S. newborn be checked for 29 conditions, to detect the few thousand who will need early treatment to avoid death, retardation or other serious problems.See the full content of this document
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41 States Now Test Infants for Genetic Disease
The federal government hasn't issued national screening guidelines, but more...
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