Swedish heart test saves lives of newborns with heart defects
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
The US Secretary of Health recently supported a recommendation that all babies born in the US are to be screened for critical heart defects, before leaving hospital. Behind this decision is a study from Sweden which shows that a simple test can save the lives of newborns with these heart defects. Other countries too are set to make the test mandatory.