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Rethinking newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease

Critical congenital heart diseases, or CCHDs, are a group of life-threatening structural heart defects present at birth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in four babies born with a heart defect has a CCHD, and treatment—medication and/or surgery—must take place

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