Every year, 12,000 babies are born in the United States with hearing loss, a problem that can go unnoticed for years and leave children with significant developmental delays. A simple newborn hearing screening can detect potential hearing problems so parents and doctors may develop a treatment program to give children the language skills they need to succeed.
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An infant or newborn who is consistently spitting up or vomiting may have gastroesophageal reflux. Infant gastroesophageal reflux is a common problem. Most of the time gastroesophageal reflux in newborns is attributed to a poor...
Exposure to marijuana in the womb may lead to delayed fetal growth and possible premature birth, the March of Dimes says. Babies exposed to prenatal marijuana may exhibit "withdrawal" type symptoms, such as excessive crying and...
Newborn genetic screening is an effort to discover adverse genetic conditions in infants, according to the Genetics Department at the University of Utah. The existence of this program enables doctors to get ahead of the disease...
Before a newborn goes home from the hospital, all states require testing for at least 26 genetic diseases. The diseases are wide-ranging but have a common characteristic--they are treatable. Most of the diseases also would go u...
All states in the U.S. offer newborn screening, which involves testing a small sample of a newborn's blood obtained for various genetic conditions. The number of conditions tested for varies from state to state, but new develop...
Phenylketonuria, or PKU, is an inherited disease. Both parents of a baby must carry the PKU gene in order for the baby to have it. A person with PKU is missing the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase. This enzyme converts phenyla...
