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SA researchers expand baby heel-prick screening to help find rare conditions

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When Max was three days old, he was diagnosed with a rare and life-changing condition called phenylketonuria, commonly known as PKU, through a newborn blood screening test.

The condition is one of more than 30 which can currently be detected in newborns through heel-prick blood samples to help…



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