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 ...

Newborn hearing screening is the standard of care in hospitals nationwide. The primary purpose of newborn hearing screening is to identify newborns who are likely to have hearing loss and who require ...

She's the one carrying the conversation. Three-year-old Ella Muse failed her newborn hearing screening in the hospital. A few weeks later, she had a hearing re-screen with a pediatric audiologist.

Although newborn screening encompasses dried blood spot, hearing loss, and congenital heart defect testing, the scope of this work will be limited to issues facing NBS programs related to dried blood ...

The use of genomic testing in clinical practice, once thought to be a distant goal, is now a reality that is profoundly impacting medicine. This special issue of the Association for Diagnostics & ...

Our baby was born deaf; she failed her first hearing test in the hospital when she was born. We didn't worry about it as no ...

Once I got my job as a newborn hearing screener, they offered me a Level 3 Health Screening Diploma, so I can learn on the job. In the future, I would like to do my Level 4 Audiology Diploma and ...

A new genetic test that could identify the risk of, and therefore help to avoid permanent antibiotic-related hearing loss in newborn babies is being developed in Manchester Due to an identified ...