CDC - Newborn Screening Portal

CDC - Newborn Screening Portal

Newborn Screening Portal

Newborn screening identifies conditions that can affect a child’s long-term health or survival. Early detection, diagnosis, and intervention can prevent death or disability and enable children to reach their full potential. Each year, millions of babies in the U.S. are routinely screened, using a few drops of blood from the newborn’s heel, for certain genetic, endocrine, and metabolic disorders, and are also tested for hearing loss and critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs) prior to discharge from a hospital or birthing center.

Newborn Screening Activities

• Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology Branch
• Pulse Oximetry Screening for CCHDs
• Sickle Cell Disease

Laboratory

• SCID
• Quality Assurance
• Training and Resources
• For Lab Professionals

Data and Reports

• Laboratory Reports
• National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN)

Resources

• National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
• Division of Laboratory Sciences
• Office of Public Health Genomics
• Publications & Articles
• Newborn Screening Lab Bulletin
• Laboratory Partners

Multimedia Tools

• Newborn Screening Program – Role of Laboratories
• Meet the Scientist
• Newborn Screening: Family Stories
• Newborn Screening: Public Health Stories
• Screening Newborns for Critical Congenital Health Disease
• The Critical Importance of Newborn Screening and Follow-up