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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 01 > Vital routine

Vital routine

Newborn screening program likely saved life of local boy and many others

By Betsy Q. Cliff / The Bulletin
January 1, 2009

It was their second baby, second son, so Rachel Powderly thought nothing of it when nurses pricked the newborn’s heel shortly after birth last January to take blood.

As is done with nearly every baby born in the United States, Nolan Powderly had a spot of blood sent to a state lab....

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