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Podcast: Living With Cystic Fibrosis
Episode: Newborn Screening, will you be diagnosed with CF?
Description: Newborn Screening, do you know what it is, do you everything about it? Did you know that people of color are less likely to be diagnosed by newborn screen because in most cases, states test for common mutations, or white mutations. Newborn Screening is a public health program. This is when a dried blood spot is taken from your babies’ heel. NBS is recognized as one of the largest and most successful disease prevention and detection programs in the U.S. it began in 1962 and CF was added in 2007.Our experts have the answers. Dr...