Standard heel-stick test ineffective at screening for CMV in newborns
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 08:36
in Health & Medicine
DALLAS -- May 4, 2010 -- 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 at identifying cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of hearing loss in children.