Newborn screening describes various tests that can occur during the first few hours or days
of a newborn's life and have the potential for preventing severe health problems, including …

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Background Primaquine is a key drug for malaria elimination. In addition to being the only
drug active against the dormant relapsing forms of Plasmodium vivax, primaquine is the sole …

Detection by newborn screening (NBS) and treatment of babies with congenital
hypothyroidism (CH) has largely eliminated the intellectual disability caused by this disorder …

Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) are a phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous
group of disorders caused by a defect in a metabolic pathway, leading to malfunctioning …

Background National newborn screening programmes based on tandem-mass spectrometry
(MS/MS) and other newborn screening (NBS) technologies show a substantial variation in …

Malaria elimination will be possible only with serious attempts to address asymptomatic
infection and chronic infection by both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax …

Hyperbilirubinemia is the most common condition requiring evaluation and treatment in
neonates, but for most newborns, it is a benign postnatal transitional phenomenon of no …

The diagnosis and management of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency
is a crucial aspect in the current phases of malaria control and elimination, which will require …

Globally, health care providers worldwide recognize that severe neonatal jaundice is a
“silent” cause of significant neonatal morbidity and mortality. Untreated neonatal jaundice …