Newborn screening

The article talks about poor cities in Brazil, Shantytown called “alto do Gruzeiro” (Crucifix Hill), and Bom Jesus de mata. There is a bell that rings each time an infant or a baby dies. Most of these kids die unnamed and during birth but the fortunate babies who do survive will mostly last two or three months. Alto do Gruzeior is one of the three counties in shantytown that has the poorest representation of the third world countries, shantytown has mostly farms, ranches, sugar plantations and…

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test used by doctors to check for the disease in the patient's body. This PET scan also can use to measure blood flow, oxygen use and can detect cancer, heart problems, brain disorders and another. PET scans use radioactive materials called tracers to find diseases in the body and it will shows how organs and tissues are working. Stacy Simon reported annual statistics reporting from the American Cancer Society shows the death rate from…

Denver Developmental Screening Tool II: Explanation and Implementation The Denver Developmental Screening Tool II (DDSTII) is a revision of DDST and DDST-R and is the most widely used developmental screening tool for examining children. It was developed at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, Colorado; hence it’s name. It screens a child for cognitive delays and behavioral problems from birth to 6 years of age. The sooner the delay is picked up the sooner the child can get…

identified before entering school (Thomas et al, 2012). As a result of this prevalence, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has recommended that pediatricians use the Denver developmental screening tools at well- child visit to address this issue (Thomas et al, 2012). The Denver Developmental Screening test (DDST) also known as the Denver Scale. It was developed by a professor named William Frankenberg at University…

Newborn Screening: Complexities in Universal Genetic Testing by Nancy S. Green, Siobhan M. Dolan, and Thomas H. Murray analyzes challenges go through the consideration of three disorders: phenylketonuria, medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, and cystic fibrosis. This is relevant towards my paper since my paper describes the physical health effects of genetics screening on newborns and there are physical health effects of genetics screening mentioned in this article such as early…

quotes “Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.” Informed consent is permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits. Informed consent is needed to protect both parties. The quandary that is faced is that albeit Newborn screening…

nutrients. An infant that has been diagnosed with CF has inherited two copies of the defective CF gene, a copy from each parent as a carrier. When screening infants for cystic fibrosis, the most effective way to prevent serious lifelong complications is to diagnosis the disease early. In a study that surveyed parental support for newborn screening, the results revealed that almost half of the parents wanted to know their carrier status prior to having a baby…

University of Maryland, I have learned the crucial role health policy has on benefiting the most lives possible, and I appreciate the EveryLife Foundation’s Newborn Screening Initiative for striving to do just that. I would be excited to bring my experience working with unique genetic diseases and task-managing skills to the Newborn Screening Fellows position at the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases, and I hope to be considered for the position. Last summer, I worked as a rehabilitation…

Impacts of Genetic Screening For Parents Genetic screening is defined as "any kind of test performed for the systematic early detection or exclusion of a hereditary disease, the preposition to such a disease or to determine whether a person carries a predisposition that may produce a hereditary disease in offspring." (Godard, Beatrice et al.) Genetic screening is commonly performed for reasons associated with fertility and pregnancy, and, being a relatively new frontier in genetic research,…

ultimate goal of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) is to detect hearing loss early in order to treat hearing loss sooner, preventing a delay in children’s overall development (NIH, 1993). Language development is positively and significantly affected by the age of identification. Previously, early identification was predominantly defined as “prior to 18 months” or “prior to 30 months” of age, and no studies of developmental outcomes of infants identified in the newborn period had been…