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House Health Committee backs bill to add Gaucher disease to newborn screening
Summary
The House Health Committee unanimously reported House Bill 16 52 to add Gaucher disease to Pennsylvania’s mandatory newborn screening panel after sponsor Representative Salisbury and members emphasized early diagnosis and asked the Department of Health for cost estimates.
The House Health Committee on Friday voted to report House Bill 16 52, which would add Gaucher disease to Pennsylvania’s mandatory newborn screening panel.
Representative Salisbury, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee that Gaucher disease is an enzyme deficiency that affects lipid processing and “is something that we actually used to test for in Pennsylvania and is no longer on the newborn screening panel.” He said the condition…
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