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The Newborn and Infant Screening and Intervention Program Act was authored and sponsored, mainly, by Walsh in 1999. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] On March 11, 2009, the act was renamed as the James T. Walsh Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program, [ 6 ] and was identified within 42 United States Code 280g-1 . [ 6 ]
Universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS), which is part of early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programmes, refer to those services aimed at screening hearing of all newborns, regardless of the presence of a risk factor for hearing loss. UNHS is the first step in the EHDI program which indicates whether a newborn requires further ...
From 1993 to 1996, NCHAM directed a National Consortium for Newborn Hearing Screening that resulted in over 100 hospitals in 10 states implementing newborn hearing screening programs. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] From 1996 to 2000, NCHAM staff worked with newborn hearing screening programs in 35 states and provided direct assistance to over 200 ...
The new study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, found that a group of eight metabolites included on the newborn screening panel was associated with SIDS. The metabolites are ...
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Marion Downs (January 26, 1914 – November 13, 2014) [1] was an American audiologist and professor emerita at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. She pioneered universal newborn hearing screening in the early 1960s and spent over 30 years advocating for its adoption in hospitals, as well as for the provision of hearing aids to infants displaying hearing loss. [2]
[1] [2] [3] In 2000, OZ Systems was awarded a statewide contract for Texas Newborn Hearing Screening. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2013, OZ Systems developed their OZ Telepathy technology for CCHD screening that captures information directly from pulse oximeters to improve interpretive accuracy. [ 6 ]