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If you or someone you know is pregnant, please talk to your doctor and/or hospital to help raise awareness of the importance of Universal Newborn Screening before a child is born. Almost every state does not test for the 54 recommended potentially fatal, but treatable, diseases in newborns. Hunter's Hope is committed to changing that. In the meantime, to ensure your newborn is not at risk, we are providing information for the following companies which offer supplemental newborn screening kits. By listing these companies, Hunter's Hope does not imply endorsement of any particular company.
PerkinElmer Genetics, Inc
The PerkinElmer Genetics Screening Laboratory provides comprehensive newborn screening through a simple, fast and accurate product, StepOneTM. StepOne Comprehensive Newborn Screening detects more than 50 disorders in newborns from just a few drops of blood. This screening allows parents the opportunity to protect their babies from the preventable complications of undiagnosed disorders.
Toll free number: 1-866-463-6436
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Mayo Medical Laboratories
Mayo Medical Laboratories, the reference laboratory for Mayo Clinic, provides supplemental newborn screening for more than 20 disorders using tandem mass spectrometry. The screening is performed separately from state-mandated screening and does not replace state-mandated screening. The test is performed under the supervision of pediatric geneticists in Mayo's Biochemical Genetics Laboratory.
Toll free number: 1-800-533-1710
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University of Colorado Expanded Newborn Screening Program
The Expanded Newborn Screening Program allows parents to have their babies screened for over 20 additional disorders. Tests are run at the Biochemical Genetics Laboratory University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
At Fitzsimons - Aurora, Colorado.
Phone number: 303-724-3826 |
2M Associates, Inc.
2M Associates, Inc. is associated with The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, (U.S.A.) and provides expanded newborn screening in the U.S., India, and the United Arab Emirates and a number of other countries. All of the samples are processed in U.S. laboratories.
Phone number: 440-498-7484 |
Baylor Medical Center Institute of Metabolic Disease
Site offers education material and information on newborn screening disorders. It also includes information on ordering supplemental newborn screening tests offered at Baylor.
Toll free number: 1-800-422-9567
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To find out which newborn screening tests are routinely conducted in your state, visit the National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center website, call 1-877-984-HOPE, or contact your State Health Department’s Newborn Screening Program.
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