When a baby is born in the United States, a few drops of blood are taken from their heel to test for many conditions that could affect the child’s long-term health or survival. This testing is part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The suit alleges that the state’s retention of baby blood samples for purposes other than disease screening violates the Fourth ...

Hannah Lovaglio is one of the New Jersey parents suing over the state's stockpile of newborn blood samples. Every state in the U.S. requires hospitals to take a small blood sample from newborns to ...

If you were born in the United States within the last 50 or so years, chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. By the 1970s, states had ...

When babies are born in New Jersey, they don’t wait long before they take their very first test. Within 48 hours of birth, a newborn’s heel is pricked, and their blood is collected on a paper card to ...

A group of New Jersey parents filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the state’s practice of keeping newborn babies’ blood samples for 23 years without their parents’ knowledge. The state can ...

Newborn screenings are important for assuring the well-being and timely treatment of medical issues for infants. These screenings identify conditions that can impact a child’s health and even survival ...

New Jersey police used a baby's mandatory blood sample to pursue a decades-old criminal case. Public defenders and a newspaper have since teamed up to sue over privacy concerns. They are seeking to ...