Articles
Newborn Screening and Tandam Mass Spectrometry
- Controversial
Legal or Ethical Issues - Newborn Screening and Early Discharge of Mothers
and Newborns (Southeastern Regional Genetics Group
Winter 1996 Newsletter)
- Evaluation
of Genetic Testing - Newborn Screening Quality Assurance (Chapter
13, Genetics and Public Health in the 21st Century, Center for Disease
Control, 1999)

- Expanded
Newborn Screening: Lessons Learned from MCAD deficiency (Peadiatrics
& Child Health, Vol. 9 No. 4, April 2004)

- Newborn
Screening for Sickle Cell Disease Update -- California, Illinois, and
New York 1998
(Center for Disease Control and Prevention, August 18, 2000)

- Newborn
Screening for sickle cell disease: A 1998-2003 Quebec experience,
(Peadatrics and Child Health - The Official Journal of The Canadian
Paedatric Society, April 200, Volume 11, Number 4: 223-227)

- Overview
of Newborn Screening Practices in Canada - Presentation by Dr. P.
Chakraborty (November 17, 2005)

- Newborn
Screening for Cystic Fibrosis: Evaluation of Benefits and Risks and Recommendation
for State Newborn Screening Programs (Center
for Disease Control and Prevention, October 15, 2004)

- Newborn
Screening for Medium Chain Acyl~CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency Using Tandem
Mass Spectrometry: Clinical and Cost-effectiveness (Technology Report,
Issue 62, March 2006)

- Newborn
Screening for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Workgroup: Lay Report (Center
for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004)
- Newborn screening with tandem mass spectrometry: 12 months' experience in NSW Australia (Acta pediatrica, December 1999)
- Newborn
Screening Report Addresses Inconsistencies and Controversies (American
Academy of Pediatrics, August 2000)
- Newborn
Screening Tests (About Kids Health, September 2005)

- Newborn
Screening in Canada - Are we out of Step (Dr. William B.
Hanley, Peadiatrics & Child Health, Vol. 10 No. 4, April 2005)

- Screening
for Hemoglobinophathies in Canada (Canadian Task Force on Preventative
Health Care, 1994)

- The Canadian
Paediatric Surveillance Program: A new opportunity to help shape public
health policy- Editorial (Peadiatrics & Child Health, Vol. 6 No.
5, June 2001)

- The
epidemiology of medium chain acyl-CoA dehyrodgenase definciency: An update
( Center for Disease Control, Vol. 8, No. 4, April 2006)
- Top
Ten Pitfalls in NBS (Genetic Drift, Vol 15. Winter, 1998)

- Using
Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Metabolic Disease Screening Among Newborns
(Center for Disease Control
and Prevention, April 13, 2001)

Newborn Screening Legal Issues
-
Screening of Newborns for Genetic and Metabolic Disorders — The Issue of Parental Choice (ISUMA, Vol. 2, Autumn 2001)

- Newborn Screening, Banking and Consent (GenEdit, 2004)
- Privacy
and rights issues related to developments in health genetics: Highlights
of recent legal and policy research at the Department of Justice Canada
(DOJ).
Other Articles of Interest
- Recombinant
human acid -glucosidase: Major clinical benefits in infantile-onset Pompe
disease - Neurology 2007, Vol. 6; pages:99-109

- SIDS Alliance Pushes For States To Pass Standardized Autopsy And Death Scene Protocols For Cases Of Sudden, Unexpected Infant Death (Press Release, April 1998)
- Policy and Politics: Newborn Screning gets a Booster in Ontario. (National Medicine Review, Vol 2. No. 17, October 15, 2005)
- The
epidemiology of medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency: an update
(Genetics in Medicine: Official Journal of the American College of
Medial Genetics, Vol. 8 Issue 6, April 200)

- The
Right to be Impatient - Whether the Ministry of Health and Long-term
Care has failed to properly administer Newborn Screening in Ontario. Ombudsman
Ontario (September 27, 2005)

