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Newborn Screening & Immunizations Law
House Bill 2491 has been in the media and became a law with the Governor’s signature. The new law requires us to add critical congenital heart defect (CCHD) to our newborn screening program protocol....
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Newborn Screening Team Beats Deadline
Ben Franklin said: “Critics are our friends, they show us our faults“. A true statement. When a reporter from Wisconsin wrote a story about newborn screening turn-around times around the country, we...
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Outstanding Success by Newborn Screening Team
Last month I bragged about how our newborn screening team beat the deadline I gave them to improve our system – a system that ensure blood spots taken from newborns are quickly screened for...
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Partnering to Improve a System
Thursday we celebrated our recent statewide success at reducing the time it takes newborn screening blood spot samples to get to our State Laboratory for testing. Over the last 8 months, Arizona has...
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ADHS Receives March of Dimes National Award
The ADHS won the first-ever Newborn Screening Quality Award from the March of Dimes this week. We were recognized for shortening the length of time it takes bloodspot samples to get from Arizona...
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Newborn Screening Advisory Committee Recommendation: Add SCID
Newborn Screening consists of critical laboratory and bedside tests done on newborns to see if they have certain inherited diseases. Early detection for these specific diseases is critical for the...
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Time to Comment on Newborn Screening Rules
Last month I wrote about how we are working on revising our Newborn Screening rules because of a change in state law. The changes include requiring hearing tests on all newborns, adding critical...
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Newborn screening expands
Newborn Screening month wraps up at the end of September and has served as a time to recognize the great strides we’ve made in screening babies born in Arizona. Arizona joins 36 other states in...
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Arizona State Public Health Laboratory Helping to Protect Health Statewide
April 23 through 29 is National Laboratory Professionals Week, a time for us to take a moment to thank our hard-working laboratory staff. This week we will celebrate the vital contributions laboratory...
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Newborn Screening Program Adds SCID Testing to Program Today
The State Public Health Lab Newborn Screening Program started testing for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) syndrome on August 9. SCID is the name for a group of inherited disorders that cause...
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