If you were born in the United States within the last 50 or so years, chances are good that one of the first things you did as a baby was give a DNA sample to the government. By the 1970s, states had ...

When a baby is born in the United States, a few drops of blood are taken from their heel to test for many conditions that could affect the child’s long-term health or survival. This testing is part of ...

A blood test that revealed that a Minnetrista father was legally drunk when his sport-utility vehicle crashed through the ice in a Lake Minnetonka channel with his infant daughter inside is admissible ...

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the state of Michigan does not have to destroy data gleaned from infant blood samples collected by hospitals at birth. A unanimous three-judge panel ...

PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Health Services was given its first-ever Newborn Screening Quality Award by the March of Dimes on Thursday. The department was awarded because of its efforts to ...

New Jersey police used a baby's mandatory blood sample to pursue a decades-old criminal case. Public defenders and a newspaper have since teamed up to sue over privacy concerns. They are seeking to ...

ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — An infant girl remains hospitalized after South Carolina deputies said a field rat attacked her as she lay in a bassinet. According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s ...

If a drunken-driving suspect has enough sense to keep his mouth shut, no policeman can force him to admit how much alcohol he has under his belt. But what if the cop demands a blood sample which will ...

ORLANDO, Nov. 5 — ABO-incompatible heart transplantation (heart transplantation among non-compatible blood groups) can be safely performed in infants a year old or younger, researchers reported at the ...