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  2. Neonatal heel prick - Wikipedia

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    The blood of a two-week-old infant is collected for a Phenylketonuria, or PKU, screening. The neonatal heel prick is a blood collection procedure done on newborns. It consists of making a pinprick puncture in one heel of the newborn to collect their blood. This technique is used frequently as the main way to collect blood from neonates.

  3. Immunoreactive trypsinogen - Wikipedia

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    IRT is measured in routine heel-prick blood taken for biochemical screening of all newborn infants born in the UK. This test is one of a number of completed in newborn screening (the "Guthrie Test"). In Australia it is known 94% of those with eventual diagnosis of CF have a positive IRT on newborn screen.

  4. Newborn screening - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Dried blood spot - Wikipedia

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    Dried blood spot testing (DBS) is a form of biosampling where blood samples are blotted and dried on filter paper. The dried samples can easily be shipped to an analytical laboratory and analysed using various methods such as DNA amplification or high-performance liquid chromatography .

  6. Newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy ‘results in ...

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    The UK National Screening Committee, meanwhile, is considering reviewing the case for introducing SMA screening as part of the newborn blood spot screening programme, with pilot studies underway.

  7. AI is trained to spot warning signs in blood tests - AOL

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    AI can potentially spot much more from a blood test than currently possible [Getty Images] This is the third feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research and ...

  8. Genetic testing - Wikipedia

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    As of 2015 it is the most sensitive and specific screening test for Down syndrome. [13] Newborn heel-prick blood sample collection Newborn screening – used just after birth to identify genetic disorders that can be treated early in life. A blood sample is collected with a heel prick from the newborn 24–48 hours after birth and sent to the ...

  9. Judge's decision could force change in Michigan's handling of ...

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    Research with blood spots occurs in other states, including California, New York and Minnesota, where samples can be kept for decades. In 2009, Texas agreed to destroy millions of newborn blood ...