WASHINGTON – It’s every new parent’s nightmare: a healthy baby goes home from the hospital and within days turns blue and struggles to breathe. These infants have congenital heart disease — the most ...

In Pennsylvania, newborns are screened for more than 40 conditions, but only six of these screenings are mandatory according to Dr. Robert Cicco, the associate director of the neonatal intensive care ...

May 1, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — A new meta-analysis with data from almost 230 000 newborns shows that pulse oximetry is highly specific for detection of critical congenital heart defects [1].

Pulse oximetry, a simple test for blood oxygen saturation, has the potential to detect congenital cardiac abnormalities in newborn babies that might be missed by antenatal ultrasonography and neonatal ...

There is a hint of a benefit of pulse oximetry screening as an add-on test to existing standard examinations for detection of critical congenital heart defects in newborns: More cases are detected by ...

Olivia Easley gave birth to her third child on April 26, 2009. The baby appeared pink and healthy, nursed well and had gained weight by her first doctor's visit. But when the baby, Veronica, was about ...

COLUMBIA - A new state law went into effect Wednesday that makes it mandatory for all newborns to have a pulse oximetry test before being discharged. Chloe's Law passed in both the Missouri House and ...

Congenital heart disease is one of several ailments, including pneumonia and sepsis, that kill eight babies every minute, every day. But a decades-old technology, combined with a smartphone app, can ...

The Kansas chapter of the American Heart Association claims state health officials aren't acting quickly enough to require a screening test that could save newborn babies' livesThe screening, called a ...