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Perils of Newborn Screening
The first symptoms often appear a month or two after birth. The babies' muscles stiffen. They lose their hearing and vision, stop sleeping and scream in pain. Some develop seizures. By the time many parents learn that their children have Krabbe disease--a rare genetic disorder that degrades nerve cells--it is too late for the only viable treatment, a transfusion of umbilical cord blood stem ...

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