When we found out we were expecting our third child, we were overjoyed. No pregnancy is easy, of course, and we already had our hands full with two little ones. But this was our third time around, and ...

A 3-year study in Israel shows pooled-saliva congenital cytomegalovirus universal screening identifies hidden infections in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . University CMV testing among newborns is not common. In Minnesota, the first state with universal CMV testing, a ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Gov. Ned Lamont passed a bill that mandates all newborns be screened for congenital cytomegalovirus or CMV. It is a virus that is the number one cause of non-genetic hearing ...

Laura Gibson is an associate professor of medicine and of pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School. CMV belongs to the same virus family as cold sores and chickenpox and, like those viruses, lives in ...

A new 'health screening law for newborns' is going into effect Jan. 1. All Florida hospitals and birthing facilities must test newborns for congenital cytomegalovirus also known as CMV. News4JAX ...

April 14, 2010 — Screening newborns for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection with real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays on dried blood spots (DBS) may have limited value, according to the ...

A national study involving a UT Southwestern Medical Center neonatologist and pediatric infectious diseases specialist suggests that a screening test routinely performed in newborns is not very good ...

- CMV is the most common and serious viral infection in transplant patients - The cobas® CMV test provides reliable, reproducible, high-quality results for clinical decision-making - CMV viral load ...

The state of New York plans to add testing for Cytomegalovirus, known as CMV, to its Newborn Screening Program beginning this fall. WSHU’s Madi Steddick spoke with Dr. Sharon Nachman, the division ...

Cytomegalovirus belongs to the same virus family, _Herpesviridae_, as cold sores and chickenpox. Callista Images/Image Source via Getty Images So if most people are unlikely to get sick from CMV at ...