Brazil seeks home-grown neonatal screening self-sufficiency by 2014
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The Brazilian health ministry has approved R$8.4m (US$4.6m) in additional funding for the development over the next two years of a home-grown heel-prick neonatal screening test. The funding is to extend an R&D partnership already underway with the federal university of the state of Minas Gerais (UFMG).