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Newborn Screening
- What You Should Know
If you are pregnant:
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To learn more
about the diseases your state and hospital tests for, visit
http://genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/nbsdisorders.htm. If
your state does not test for at least 50 diseases you can
request expanded newborn screening.
Expanded Newborn Screening Test
Kits
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Expanded
Newborn Screening Packets (StepOneTM)
are available at a reduced cost through the following
non-profit organizations in partnership with PerkinElmer
Genetics.
Save Babies Limited amount of FREE packets are available.
Hunter's Hope Foundation
$50.00
The National Newborn
Screening and Genetics Resource Center
provides the following websites
for information only, and does not imply endorsement of any
particular company. (Note: The companies charge a fee for
additional screening that may not be offered in your state.)
Mayo Medical Laboratories
Mayo Medical Laboratories, the reference laboratory for Mayo
Clinic, provides supplemental newborn screening for more than
20 disorders using tandem mass spectrometry. The screening is
performed separately from state-mandated screening and does
not replace state-mandated screening. The test is performed
under the supervision of pediatric geneticists in Mayo's
Biochemical Genetics Laboratory.
Toll free number: 1-800-533-1710
Perkin
Elmer Genetics, Inc
The PerkinElmer Genetics Screening Laboratory provides
comprehensive newborn screening through a simple, fast and
accurate product, StepOneTM.
StepOne Comprehensive Newborn Screening detects more than 50
disorders in newborns from just a few drops of blood. This
screening allows parents
the opportunity to protect their babies from the preventable
complications
of undiagnosed disorders.
Toll free number: 1-866-463-6436
University of Colorado Expanded Newborn
Screening Program
The Expanded Newborn Screening Program allows parents to have
their babies screened for over 20 additional disorders. Tests
are run at the
Biochemical Genetics
Laboratory University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
At Fitzsimons - Aurora, Colorado.
Phone number: 303-724-3826
2M
Associates, Inc.
2M Associates, Inc. is associated with
The University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center, Denver, (U.S.A.) and provides expanded
newborn screening in the U.S., India, and the United Arab
Emirates and a number of other countries. All of the samples
are processed in U.S. laboratories.
Phone number: 440-498-7484
Baylor Medical Center
Institute of Metabolic Disease
Site offers education material and information on newborn
screening disorders. It also includes information on ordering
supplemental newborn screening tests offered at Baylor.
Toll free number: 1-800-422-9567
NeoGen Labs, India
NeoGen Lab’s
First Step Newborn Screening Test utilizes tandem mass
spectrometry technology to screen for metabolic disorders and,
as a result, has made Newborn Screening affordable to parents
in India. Phone number: +91 79 2656 9973
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