The phenylketonuria (PKU) test is a diagnostic tool used to test infants for phenylketonuria a few days after birth. PKU is an autosomal recessive inborn error of ...

(KUTV) — A Phenylketonuria (PKU) screening test is a blood test given to newborns 24–72 hours after birth. For a child to get the disorder, both the mother and father must pass down a mutated PKU gene ...

PKU is a rare congenital metabolic disorder that results in the accumulation of the amino acid phenylalanine in body fluids and the nervous system. The abnormal accumulation of amino acid in a child’s ...

Newborn screening, which represents one of the major advances in child health of the past century, has been carried out in all fifty U.S. states since the 1970s. New-born screening programs are ...

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Each year, specimen samples are collected from more than four million infants shortly after birth and sent to public health laboratories across the US. These samples are then tested for between 26 and ...

Only four days after Kala McWain’s son, Braxton, was born, she learned he had a rare condition called phenylketonuria (PKU). This means Braxton cannot eat protein and relies on a special diet, ...

To the Editor: Dr. Bessman's views on legislative control of medical practice are well known and deserve endorsement. His editorial ("PKU — Some Skepticism") in the Journal for May 23, 1968 appears to ...

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UB professor of biochemistry and pediatrics was on the team that pioneered newborn screening programs worldwide Newborn screening programs to detect serious metabolic disorders before they become ...

It was 50 years ago this month that the Journal of the American Medical Association published a letter from Robert Guthrie, UB professor of pediatrics and microbiology, reporting on a new test for ...