One in 300 babies will have a hearing loss, which is the most common birth defect. Good hearing is important for a baby’s learning and speech development. For this reason, Utah law requires that every ...

A new study indicates that noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) performed using a low-cost form of whole genome sequencing ...

Newborns across the United States are screened to check for hearing loss. This test is important because it helps families better understand their child's health, but it's often not accessible to ...

Newborn screening in the United States routinely checks every baby, within the first one to two days of birth, to provide critically important information about the child’s health. There are three ...

The parents of the one in a 1,000 newborn babies with hearing loss might soon have the reassurance that their children’s hearing aids are picking up speech thanks to a new test. University of ...

On a spring day in the late 1980s, pediatrician Mark Schleiss was confronted with a difficult case: a months-old infant who had developed pneumonia. While many infants with pneumonia recover, this ...

Newborns are routinely screened for hearing loss; screening typically occurs in the newborn nursery and newborn intensive care unit. Understanding the process and outcomes of initial hearing screening ...

Many parents think that a newborn will respond to sounds as they get older, but hearing problems often go unnoticed. Early ...

Researchers have created a newborn hearing screening system that uses cheap earbuds and a smartphone instead of an expensive commercial device. Newborns across the United States are screened to check ...

SAN ANTONIO — Detecting and treating hearing loss in the first few months of life is imperative a child's health. When it comes to premature babies, who can end up in the NICU for a long time, there's ...