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Expanding Newborn Screening: Process, Policy, and Priorities
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 38, Number 3, May-June 2008
- pp. 32-39
- 10.1353/hcr.0.0011
- Article
- Additional Information
In the 1960s, newborn screening programs tested for a single very rare but serious disorder. In recent years, thanks to the development of new screening technology, they have expanded into panels of tests; a federally sponsored expert group has recommended that states test for twenty-nine core disorders and twenty-five secondary disorders. By the standards used to decide whether to introduce new preventive health services into clinical use, the decision-making in newborn screening policy has been lax.