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Newborn screening in Minnesota

Posted: Friday, December 19th, 2008 @ 7:22 pm in General, Parenthood, Politics, Pregnancy, Science | Comments Off

Newborn screening: they take a few drops of your newborn’s blood, and test it for about gazillion diseases.
The problem in Minnesota is that they keep the cards with the blood spots on them “for an indefinite period of time” which probably means FOREVER. That means they have your baby’s DNA, and can do basically [...]