{"id":795770,"date":"2026-10-08T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795770\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:16:09","slug":"newborn-baby-screening-study-at-university-hospital-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795770\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn baby screening study at University Hospital Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parents are introduced to the voluntary study during pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If a possible condition is identified, families are contacted promptly and offered further NHS testing to confirm a diagnosis,&#8221; UHS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Where appropriate, babies can then begin specialist treatment and ongoing support at the earliest possible stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Gabriella Gazdagh, consultant in clinical genetics at UHS and co-local lead, said: &#8220;Although each of the conditions included in the study is rare, collectively they affect many families across the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most newborns in the study won&#8217;t receive a condition-suspected result, but identifying these conditions as early as possible can make a significant difference, giving babies access to specialist care and treatment before symptoms develop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents are introduced to the voluntary study during pregnancy. &#8220;If a possible condition is identified, families are contacted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}