Heather Brown
Heather Brown is a Principal Scientist at Waters focused on LC and MS solutions for clinical laboratories.
Heather Brown is a Principal Scientist at Waters focused on LC and MS solutions for clinical laboratories.
It was to be my third outing to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Newborn Screening and Genetic Testing Symposium (NBSGTS), this being the 27th meeting of its kind, bringing some 500 members of the screening and genetics community to the jewel of Lake Michigan, The Windy City, The City With Big Shoulders, Chi-Town:…
Newborn screening for inherited disorders has been heralded as one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the first decade of the 21st century.1 The ability to pre-symptomatically identify newborn babies at risk of developing endocrine, hematologic, and metabolic disorders has dramatically improved or saved thousands of lives (and saved the healthcare system millions…
Reflecting on a common concern in newborn screening: Reliability.