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Since then, OZ Systems has partnered with Iowa and Minnesota to provide integrated Newborn Screening Information Systems for both states. [ 7 ] [ 6 ] In 2014, The Newborn Foundation awarded OZ Systems CEO Dr. Terese Finitzo the EVE Innovation Award for achievements in newborn screening, policy and technology. [ 8 ]
Each year in Tennessee, about 385 babies are born with a rare disorder found with required newborn screening. Across the U.S., rare diseases account for 35% of deaths in the first year of life.
Newborn screening programs initially used screening criteria based largely on criteria established by JMG Wilson and F. Jungner in 1968. [6] Although not specifically about newborn population screening programs, their publication, Principles and practice of screening for disease proposed ten criteria that screening programs should meet before being used as a public health measure.
The following disorders are additional conditions that may be detected by screening. Many are listed as "secondary targets" by the 2005 ACMG report. [1] Some states are now screening for more than 50 congenital conditions. Many of these are rare and unfamiliar to pediatricians and other primary health care professionals. [1] Blood cell disorders
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The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2014 would amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and revise a grant program for screening, counseling, and other services related to heritable disorders. The bill would expand eligible grantees to include a health professional organization and an early childhood health system.
Wilson Central, Mt. Juliet, Hendersonville, Rossview, Smyrna and Beech among high schools with nominations for the week of Dec. 11.
The Tennessee Breast and Cervical Screening Program (TBCSP) helps low-income, underinsured and uninsured women access timely breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services. TBCSP ...