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INSIDE PRECISION MEDICINE: New research by the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases has found that early rare disease diagnosis could save as much as $500,000 per patient.
FIERCE Healthcare: The rare disease journey can be long and difficult. rWGS could offer newborns a greater chance of successful diagnosis and intervention at birth.
Dr. Stephen Kingsmore explains how the BeginNGS consortium members help the project to continually evolve.
Key Largo’s Local10 News covers the impact of Project Baby Manatee.
AJMCtv: Stephen Kingsmore discusses the types of disparities seen in genetic testing as the BeginNGS phase 2 clinical trial is underway.
Becker’s Healthcare Podcast: RCHSD President and CEO Patricio A. Frias shares the exciting innovative research being conducted at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine.
Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc, president and CEO, at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, shares details of the BeginNGS newborn screening program and its future goals.
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE: Rady Children’s hospital has set its sights on expanding the use of a screening test that it says can detect 411 genetic disorders in newborns.
WASHINGTON POST: DNA sequencing to diagnose newborns could end up saving much more money — especially if done for babies who are sick. In a study funded by the state of California called Project Baby Bear, researcher Stephen Kingsmore found that sequencing the whole genomes of 178 infants hospitalized in intensive care saved $2.5 million.
MedPage Today: Whole genome sequencing captured almost twice as many genetic abnormalities that may be responsible for disease in infants, compared with a standard targeted test, researchers found.
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