TRENTON - Upon the birth of her two children, Hannah Lovaglio knew blood samples were taken from her newborns to test for 62 different diseases and disorders. She didn't know the state Department of ...

The doctor who oversees Mayo Clinic's newborn screening program warns that Wednesday's Minnesota Supreme Court decision against the program will hurt the children the screening aims to help. "There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The suit alleges that the state’s retention of baby blood samples for purposes other than disease screening violates the Fourth ...

The Minnesota Department of Health is beginning to destroy blood spot collection cards to comply with a ruling last year from the Minnesota Supreme Court. In November, the court sided with parents who ...

Following the threat of a potential court fight from a federal lawsuit, the state Attorney General announced Thursday the state will establish new limits on using newborn blood samples in criminal ...

Hannah Lovaglio's first son entered the world a month early. Nurses bustled in and out of the hospital room during his first days of life and frequently pricked his heel to check his blood, Lovaglio ...

ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Health Department says it will begin destroying newborn blood samples to comply with a recent court ruling. A group of parents filed a lawsuit saying state law barred the ...

As newborn screening programs expand to include babies’ entire genomes, parents must be made aware of the privacy risks and states must create rules to rein in unbridled police access to this data.

A group of New Jersey parents filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the state’s practice of keeping newborn babies’ blood samples for 23 years without their parents’ knowledge. The state can ...

WASHINGTON - Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their four newborn children for routine genetic testing. But then they discovered that ...

The state of Michigan must return or destroy dried blood samples from nine newborns or get approval from parents to keep them, according to the latest scathing opinion from a federal judge who found ...

DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan must return or destroy dried blood samples from nine newborns or get approval from parents to keep them, according to the latest scathing opinion from a federal ...