nensp.umassmed.eduNew England Newborn Screening Program

") Skip to main content Translate this site Select Language English Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Home About Us For Parents Screening Programs Contact Us Who We Are The helps prevent treatable disorders through early detection. The program started in 1962 in Massachusetts, screening for just one disease. Since that time, the number of treatable disorders in the program has increased, and newborn screening has been adopted worldwide as a routine standard of care. Why Screen Newborns Most babies, including those with disorders, appear healthy at birth. Routine screening of newborn babies can help doctors identify and treat certain disorders that are not apparent at birth but can become severe later on. Massachusetts to offer new pilot screening study On January 29, 2018 the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, through the , implemented voluntary pilot screening for SMA, X-ALD, MPS-I, and Pompe Disease. Deputy Director Anne Marie Comeau, Ph.D. , talks about the SMA screening in a segment on WBUR . Biotech 4, 2 nd Floor UMass Medical School 377 Plantation Street Worcester, MA 01605-2300 Phone: 774-455-4600 Fax: 774-455-4657 nbs@umassmed.edu...