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Article: Alabama Begins Mandatory Screening of Newborns for Cystic Fibrosis
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- U.S. Newswire
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- May 13, 2008
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Laurie Fink, Director of Media Relations of Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation, +1-301-841-2602, Lfink@cff.org
State Joins 40 Others in Screening for Life-Threatening, Genetic
Disease
WASHINGTON, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alabama has joined
39 other states and the District of Columbia in requiring that all
newborns be screened for cystic fibrosis at birth.
We congratulate Alabama for initiating a newborn screening
program for cystic fibrosis, said Robert J. Beall, Ph.D., president
and CEO of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. More than 40 states are
now screening for the disease. With every added state, more people
with cystic fibrosis will have a better chance at a ...