Newborn screening gives Gretna 5-week-old a head start on treatment

Spinal muscular atrophy was added in 2020 to Nebraska's heel-prick blood test that all babies receive at birth, allowing infants with the condition like Gretna's MJ Hoodjer to get treatment.

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