Newborn Screening Update

Pediatrics Now: Cases Updates and Discussions for the Busy Pediatric Practitioner · Dec 21, 2025 · 42m · transcript

Newborn Screening Update

FACULTY:

Alice Gong, MD, is a professor and neonatologist at UT Health San Antonio and medical director for their PREMIERe Program.

OVERVIEW:

Pediatrics Now host Holly Wayment interviews Dr. Alice Gong about updated newborn screening guidelines, expanded blood tests (now 59–60), additions like lysosomal storage disorders and SMA, point-of-care screens (hearing and critical congenital heart disease), and newborn blood spot retention and consent policies.

The episode covers testing timelines, follow-up coordination between hospitals and pediatricians, counseling…