The heel-stick procedure, a routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of ...

A national study involving a UT Southwestern Medical Center neonatologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist suggests that a screening test routinely performed in newborns is not very good ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even a routine heel-stick test can be painful enough for some newborns to trigger an increase in potentially harmful free radicals in the blood, a new study suggests. The ...

Close to 4 million babies are born in the United States every year, and within their first 48 hours nearly all are pricked in the heel so their blood can be tested for dozens of life-threatening ...

Close to 4 million babies are born in the U.S. every year, and within their first 48 hours nearly all are pricked in the heel so their blood can be tested for dozens of life-threatening genetic and ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the efficacy of combined sucrose and non-nutritive sucking (NNS) for analgesia in newborn infants undergoing heel-stick procedures. Baseline ...

A routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, the heel-stick procedure, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of ...