Newborn Screening Program Reaches Middle Age

http://www.umassmed.edu/nbs For fifty years, the New England Newborn Screening Program has been helping to provide peace of mind to parents and doctors by providing answers about the health of newborns in their first days of life. Operated by the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Commonwealth Medicine division, the tests performed by the Newborn Screening Program can help prevent serious unforeseen medical and developmental disabilities. In some cases, the tests save lives.