The newborn hearing screening is designed to detect hearing abnormalities right after birth, since hearing loss is a common congenital condition among infants. In fact, roughly 2 or 3 out of every ...

Newborn hearing screenings identify both unilateral and bilateral hearing loss to maximize the child’s speech and literacy.

One in 300 babies will have a hearing loss, which is the most common birth defect. Good hearing is important for a baby’s learning and speech development. For this reason, Utah law requires that every ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. (KWWL) - When you walk into the doors of St. Luke's Center for Women and Children's Health, you will find nurses monitoring newborns very intently. Furthermore, you will often find ...

On a spring day in the late 1980s, pediatrician Mark Schleiss was confronted with a difficult case: a months-old infant who had developed pneumonia. While many infants with pneumonia recover, this ...

Newborns are routinely screened for hearing loss; screening typically occurs in the newborn nursery and newborn intensive care unit. Understanding the process and outcomes of initial hearing screening ...

One of the great successes of public health in the US is the newborn screening program, which tests infants in every state for more than 30 serious but treatable congenital diseases. For the four ...

From February 2023, when the program began, to February 2024, 184 cases of congenital CMV infection or disease were identified among 60,115 infants screened using dried blood spot polymerase chain ...

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has celebrated 20 years of its the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme. The programme, launched on September 1, 2005, screens around 5,000 babies each year across ...

Sir Lester Bird Medical Centre (SLBMC) has taken another important step in advancing child health with the recent launch of its Newborn Hearing Screening Program. This initiative, the first of its ...