|
|
Article: Testing for sickle cell urged. (screening of all newborns)
- Article from:
- Special Delivery
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Guidelines issued by a federally supported panel of experts call for screening all newborns for sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that is most common among blacks but which can strike others with ancestors from the Caribbean, South and Central America, Turkey, Greece, the Middle East and India.
A committee of physicians, scientists and patient representatives commissioned by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research issued the new clinical guidelines in April 1993.
The group called for universal screening because it said early medical treatment can significantly reduce the rate of illness and death caused by sickle cell disease.
...