This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The heel-stick test commonly used for screening newborns for a variety ...

A national study involving a UT Southwestern Medical Center neonatologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist suggests that a screening test routinely performed in newborns is not very good ...

The heel-stick procedure, a routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of ...