DNA testing of newborn's blood not effective for identifying hearing loss infection
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 17:14
in Health & Medicine
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 hearing loss in children, according to research published in the April 14 online issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.