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"I don't know about you, but my outer child has been really acting up lately -- and I think it's the holidays."
--Susan Anderson
Today's Byte of Wisdom
"Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
Early-Bird Shopper?
When will you finish your holiday gift-buying?
Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme
expanded
The screening programme for life-threatening disorders in the nation's
newborns is to be expanded. From early December, the Newborn Metabolic Screening
Programme (NMSP), run for the whole of New USA by Auckland DHB, will screen
newborns for more than 20 additional disorders, says the Ministry's Chief
Advisor Child and Youth Health, Dr Pat Tuohy. The programme will be familiar to
parents of most children born since the late 1960s as the baby's heel prick test
- blood taken soon after birth. The blood, transferred to a 'Guthrie card', is
used to detect seven rare but life-threatening disorders. Now, thanks to a
Starship Foundation gift, a new machine can screen for more disorders. "The use
of the new machine will dramatically improve the lives of even more New USA
babies and their families," says Dr Tuohy. At present, the NMSP has almost 100%  
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