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NEWS & LINKS ON SUPPLEMENTAL NEWBORN SCREENING

• Elenco centri screening in Italia (Fenilchetonuria, Ipotiroidismo C. e Fibrosi Cistica)

• SISN Società Italiana per gli Screening Neonatali

• Centri di Cura MME e centri screening MME

• Regione Toscana: Screening delle malattie metaboliche a tutti i neonati della Toscana

• Malattie Metaboliche Ereditarie: già 10 neonati salvi grazie allo screening

• Congresso Nazionale 2006: strategie diagnostiche ed assistenziali garanzia di qualità SISMME   SISN  GENCLI

• Norme per il potenziamento dei servizi assistenziali a favore dei malati affetti da errori genetici del metabolismo - Proposta di Legge n. 65 Regione Sardegna

• 12.01.06 Screening illeciti su malattie rare: medici indagati

• Operiamo nell'interesse dei pazienti: la Genzyme ed i ricercatori si difendono

• META: Congresso Pediatrico Nazionale a Pollenzo CN 2005

• Toscana Medica News 24-2-2005

• US State map with NBS program link

• AAP ENDORSES NEWBORN SCREENING REPORT FROM THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS

• National Newborn Screening & Genetics Resource Center

• National Conference of State Legislatures

• 23.02.06 - New Zeland: New machine gets thumbs up
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• Tandem Mass Spectromety and Newborn Screening

• Mayo Clinic: Newborn screening

• Expanded Newborn Screening Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry

• N.Y. expands newborn genetic testing

• States pressured to expand newborn testing

• Save Babies Through Screening Foundation of Canada

• Kids Health: Newborn screening tests

• FODs Support: Newborn Screening

• FODs: News on "Supplemental Newborn Screening"

• Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of neonatal screening for inborn errors of metabolism using tandem mass spectrommetry: a systematic review

• From NORD E-News 04-06-2006: University of Washinghton Scientists Develop Newborn Screening Tecnique

• Washington Post: Expands Testing of Newborns to Catch More Disorders

• 4th International DNA Sampling Conference

• The 6th Meeting of the International Society for  Neonatal Screening

• Simple screening process open door to treating rare metabolic diseases, such a tay-Sachs, fabry and gaucher Syndromes

• Association of Public Health Laboratories Applauds Introduction of the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act

• Researchers recommend national uniform newborn screening tests

• The call for newborn genetic screening

• From PKU to Tandem Mass Spectrometry

• California's Experience Implementing a Pilot Newborn Supplemental Screening Program Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry  05.05.06

• Inborn Errors of Metabolism in Infancy and Early Childhood: An Update 01.06.06

• Attitudes of New Mothers Towards Genetics and Newborn Screening

• 11.07.06 States Doubled Number of Newborns Tested for Genetic Diseases

• 13.07.06 Newborn Screening Tests: Nearly Two-thirds Of Babies Receive Most Of The Recommended Tests

• PeriStats March od Dimes

• Wisconsin Newborns Screened for 48 Genetic Disorders

• 27.07.06 PerkinElmer Selected By the State of Texas to Supply Solutions for Expanded Newborn Screening; PerkinElmer's Tandem Mass Spectrometry System and Reagent Kits Used to Screen for Multiple Disorders

• 26.08.2006 Scadd (Short Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency)
  secondo gli esperti dell'università di Amsterdam, dovrebbe essere inserito nel programma di screening neonatale anche in Europa

• September is National Newborn Screening Awareness Month

• 09.11.06 Software aids in protein identification and quantitation.

• 20.11.06 National Institutes of Health Launches “Health Information Rx Program” on Newborn Screening and Related Genetic Disorders

• 17.12.06 Plan to screen all newborns for metabolic disease

• 20.12.06 Ministry of  Health - New Zeland: Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme

• 28.02.07 The 2007 Newborn Screening and Genetic Testing Symposium

• 21.03.2007: Malattie metaboliche in Liguria maxi screening tra i bambini    

• 05.04.07 Testing of New Babies Will Be Expanded

• 11.04.07 Tandem Mass Spectrometers, Reagents, and Software Now Used in Canadian Province's Enhanced Neonatal Screening Program

• 12.04.07 Alberta increases screening for newborns

• 14.04.07 Malattie metaboliche parte dal Policlinico screening regionale

• 26.04.07 Doctor promote blood tests for babies (in two pages)

• 08.05.07 NeoGen Labs to launch newborn screening tests to detect IEMs in babies - Bangalore India

• 28.06.07 Baby steps

• 16.07.2007 ACMG recognizes progress made in newborn screening

• 19.07.07 Quest Diagnostics Announces New Testing Technique for Improved Diagnosis of Metabolic And Nutritional Disorders

• 13.08.07 New Newborn Screening Technology Revives Old Controversies

• 19.12.07 PerkinElmer to Expand Newborn Health Through Acquisition of Pediatrix's Metabolic Screening Laboratory

• 02.01.08 KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 150 babies out of 500,000 newborns are infected with Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) in Malaysia yearly.

• 31.01.08 Unlocking The Potential For Newborn Screening Research

• 14.03.08 Screening neonatale metabolico

• 01.04.08 Expanded Newborn Screening: Information and Resources for the Family Physician

• 23.04.08 Sanita': screening neonatali e altre 109 malattie rare in nuovi Lea

• 25.04.08 American College of Medical Genetics Commends the Signing of the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act

• 29.04.08 Novel newborn screening kits developed by NovaUCD-based Enzolve Technologies

• 07.07.08 Newborn Screening Expanded In Kansas