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2024 Membership renewal
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UAE: Genetic testing mandatory for citizens getting married in Abu Dhabi from October 1 Citizens getting married in Abu Dhabi will have to undergo mandatory genetic testing as part of the premarital screening programme from October 1, the emirate's Department of Health said on Wednesday.
(source: https://lnkd.in/grMSwbmM )
Oct 09, 2024

IPIC2025. First announcement. Please see www.ipic2025.com

The WHO/World Health Assembly adopts resolution
A77/A/CONF./5 "Accelerate progress towards reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal targets 3.1 and 3.2"
June 21, 2024

2023 ISNS Awards recipients
The recipient of the 2023 ISNS/Revvity Guthrie Award is Dr Ralph Fingerhut, Weiden, Germany.
The recipient of the 2023 ISNS/Bio-Rad Dussault Medal is Dr Kristin Kernohan, Ottawa (ON), Canada.
ISNS congratulates them!
Biosketches of these colleagues will be published shortly.

Updated worldwide overview on NBS - Sept 2023
Please see here some slides based on info collected from various sources and (industrial) partners.

Two historic, very interesting, videos on PKU now available!
The Laboratory of Newborn Screening of Catalonia from Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (Spain), via Dr Ana Argudo-Ramírez,  kindly made available to ISNS two historic videos.
The first one shows the original bacterial inhibition assay method for PKU, galactosemia etc. using the Phillips Punch Index Machine. This video was acquired and brought to Barcelona in 1968 by Prof. Juan Sabaté Tobella who was doing a training in the laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he learned the Guthrie method with Dr. Vivian Shi, director of the laboratory.

The second one concerns a TV show about PKU presented by Dr. Leonard Taitz, possibly made in the '80s.

If the videos will not open in your usual webbrowser please try another one.

Please see
https://aecom.com.es/fenilalanina-medir-metodo-dr-guthrie/
and
https://aecom.com.es/pku-progrrama-tv/

  50 years of NBS in the Netherlands
After a pilot phase of five years, nationwide NBS in the Netherlands started in September 1974, i.e. somewhat later than in neighbouring countries. The first condition, of course, was phenylketonuria, followed in 1981 by congenital hypothyroidism. Nowadays the screening panel consists of 27 conditions. Participation is voluntary but still around 99 %.

To celebrate this milestone a half-day symposium was held in Ede. It consisted of a. presentations on the current logistics of the programme as well as views on future developments concerning the potentials of genomic screening; b. an interview with one of the first ladies picked up by the programme in 1975, who got  three children with PKU, her husband having been shown to be a carrier; c. an overview of the status of NBS internationally (speaker ISNS President Jim Bonham); and d. a quiz for all 200 participants with questions on NBS in theory and practice. (photo: Jim Bonham, Gerard Loeber and Peter Schielen)
Oct 25, 2024

Worldwide overview of NBS
Dr.Brad Therrell and a number of co-authors compiled the current situation concerning NBS worldwide.
A lengthy publication in the International Journal of Neonatal Screening (IJNS) but a MUST-READ for ISNS members !!
Please follow this link
June 29, 2024

The location of members worldwide as of Jan. 1, 2024, is shown in the picture on the right. Countries/states with at least one member are shown in blue, others in grey.

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