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Longer postal delays complicate newborn screening for rare diseases

Is La Poste’s commercial policy putting babies’ lives at risk? In any case, this is the fear of the Alliance of Rare Diseases, which brings together patient associations, the National Center for the Coordination of Newborn Research and the French Society of Public Health. They alert the state authorities. Extending postal delays risks delaying the detection of potentially serious illnesses if they are not cared for in the first days of infancy.

Newborn screening has been in place since 1972. From that day on, in all maternity hospitals or at home (if the return home was early), on the second or third day of the child, a few drops of blood are taken, which are collected on blotting paper.

It is then placed in an envelope and most often mailed to the Regional Newborn Screening Center. (CRDN). Analyzes are then performed by one or more biological laboratories…

Source: Le Figaro

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