[Neonatal screening: dynamics and ethics].
The Health Council of the Netherlands recently published a thorough report on neonatal screening, which recommends screening newborns for i8 treatable conditions. The report rightly stresses the importance of informing parents adequately, preferably during pregnancy. Issues that require further debate include neonatal screening for untreatable conditions and the relative advantages and disadvantages of screening newborns compared with screening prospective parents for carrier status, which may prevent the birth of a first-affected child.
de Wert
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Universiteit Maastricht, Faculteit der Geneeskunde, Postbus 6I6, 6200 MD Maastricht. g.dewert@ige.unimaas.nl
D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000175:diagnosis*; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015997:Neonatal Screening / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods; D009426:Netherlands; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000941:ethics*