ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Health Department says it will begin destroying newborn blood samples to comply with a recent court ruling. A group of parents filed a lawsuit saying state law barred the ...

The Minnesota Department of Health is beginning to destroy blood spot collection cards to comply with a ruling last year from the Minnesota Supreme Court. In November, the court sided with parents who ...

Most states do not inform parents of the retention and research use of newborn blood spot samples, according to the Indiana Center for Bioethics. However, a new Oklahoma law, Senate Bill 1250, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The suit alleges that the state’s retention of baby blood samples for purposes other than disease screening violates the Fourth ...

TRENTON - Upon the birth of her two children, Hannah Lovaglio knew blood samples were taken from her newborns to test for 62 different diseases and disorders. She didn't know the state Department of ...

DETROITDETROIT — The state of Michigan must return or destroy dried blood samples from nine newborns or get approval from parents to keep them, according to the latest scathing opinion from a federal ...

WASHINGTON - Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their four newborn children for routine genetic testing. But then they discovered that ...

Following the threat of a potential court fight from a federal lawsuit, the state Attorney General announced Thursday the state will establish new limits on using newborn blood samples in criminal ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan must ...