newborn screening,diagnosis and treatment into routine healthcare services and universal health coverage systems, starting with conditions that are both high priority and feasible to manage within existing health structures.
WHO CALLS FOR EXPANDED SCREENING AGAINST DISABILITY, INFANT MORTALITY-As part of efforts to reduce disability and infant mortality linked to birth defects,World Health Organization(WHO) has called for expansion of newborn screening programmes globally,warning that about eight
diseases.Meanwhile global health body said new report is intended to guide ministries of health, particularly in low and middle income countries,to priorities conditions for newborn screening based on local disease burden and avaliable resources. It urged governments to integrate
FRANCE BANS SOME OUTDOORN DRINKING AS HEAT WAVE THREATEN EUROPE-France put emergency services and military forces on wildfire alert, restricted public alcohol consumption and canceled some outdoor sports events to cope with heat wave scorching parts of Europe. About third of
on record. In Germany,temperatures are soaring into mid-90s. A 23 year old man drowned Saturday in lake near Rheinstetten in southwestern region of Baden-Wurttermburg,German news agency dpa reported. Three other people are missing after swimming in Rhine River,which has strong