When babies are born in New Jersey, they don’t wait long before they take their very first test. Within 48 hours of birth, a newborn’s heel is pricked, and their blood is collected on a paper card to ...

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the state of Michigan does not have to destroy data gleaned from infant blood samples collected by hospitals at birth. A unanimous three-judge panel ...

Two Missouri parents were concerned about the swelling of their daughter's feet before receiving a devastatingly rare childhood cancer diagnosis. Colton Akridge and Sarah Bates (@sarahdigm) shared a ...

This July 2022 photo shows a lab in Lansing, Mich., where the state health department tests blood from newborns for more than 50 rare diseases. (Joey Cappelletti/Report for America via AP) (CN) — The ...

TRENTON - State Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced Thursday new restrictions and procedures for police seeking to obtain genetic evidence from a state database of newborn baby blood, but ...