Newborn Heart Disease

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LA BioMed’s Research to Improve Heart Disease Screening in Newborns Given Boost from Federal Grant

LOS ANGELES (June 20, 2018) – A researcher from LA BioMed has been awarded $688,013 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to improve newborn infant screening.  The proposal by Rie Sakai-Bizmark, MD, PhD, MPH is entitled “Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in U.S.:  Assessment of implementation obstacles and application of cost-effectiveness to gauge if action needed…