New England Regional Newborn Screening Program

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Abstract
In a move that some health workers may consider long overdue, centralization of public-health laboratory functions has finally begun to emerge in newborn screening programs.1 Since 1975 Alaska, Montana and Oregon have participated in such a program. Although it appears that the unique benefits of a regional approach to newborn screening more than offset the traditional concerns of surrender of program control, the consolidation of public-health laboratory screening programs in New England had been inhibited by the difficulties of interstate transfer of funds. In January, 1976, the award of a federal grant (Job Opportunities Program, Title X, Economic Developmental Act, . . .