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We are very excited to announce the World View Newborn Screening Summit 2022 from 28-30th June in conjunction with International Neonatal Screening Day. There will be discussion around the latest advances in screening, but also hearing from those projects initiating new screening services. This event will have over 20 presentations from participants from 11 different countries. The sessions will be live streamed during the event and will be available ‘On-Demand’ after the event for those who register. Registration for the World View Newborn Screening Summit is free, and there will be opportunity to submit questions during the event to the speakers.

Oz Systems, the newborn screening software and interface provider, is now part of PerkinElmer. OZ Systems is known for its expertise in developing cloud-based newborn blood spot, hearing and heart screening information management systems which improve patient care and intervention timeliness.

The European Alliance for SMA Newborn Screening has set out a goal to have Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) included in all newborn screening programmes by 2025 To explain their position and learn more about the importance of SMA screening they have launched a whitepaper, which can be downloaded from their website. Follow link for the paper

A newborn baby has been identified as having SMA (spinal muscular atrophy) in Westmead Children’s Hospital in Australia, using a 4-plex SMA, SCID and XLA laboratory developed test