The Minnesota Department of Health would regain broad authority to test and store blood samples from newborn babies under legislation that has pitted medical privacy activists against advocates of ...

The plaintiffs sued New Jersey last November over the state’s secret practice of retaining newborn heel-prick samples for 23 years for undisclosed uses. (Getty Images) Attorneys for parents ...

Moms describe the process, from decision to delivery day.

Most states do not inform parents of the retention and research use of newborn blood spot samples, according to the Indiana Center for Bioethics. However, a new Oklahoma law, Senate Bill 1250, ...

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin has asked a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit that aims to end the state's two-year retention of blood samples taken from newborns under a mandatory ...

Novel innovations for stabilizing the plasma proteome in whole blood samples provide researchers with more confidence in their protein analysis. To reduce the preanalytical variability, scientists can ...