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When the Baby is Not OK: Why Newborn Screening Matters

Pearl Buck, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in literature, had a daughter who was disabled with PKU, phenylketonuria. It was in a time when we did not have universal newborn screening, and her baby was not OK. I’m remembering her and The Child Who Never Grew, a short book she wrote aboutContinueContinue reading “When the Baby is Not OK: Why Newborn Screening Matters”