[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 79 (Friday, June 14, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D617]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NEWBORN SCREENING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded hearings to examine what new measures 
may be needed to enhance current options and awareness concerning the 
screening of newborns to improve detection of conditions that threaten 
the life and long-term health of infants, including expanding State 
newborn screening programs and improving information sharing among 
screening programs and State systems of care for children with special 
health care needs, after receiving testimony from Peter C. van Dyck, 
Associate Administrator for Maternal and Child Health, Health Resources 
and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Jeffrey Botkin, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, 
on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Association of 
Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs Society for Pediatric 
Research; Scott A. Rivkees, Yale University School of Medicine, New 
Haven, Connecticut, on behalf of the Connecticut Newborn Screening 
Program Genetics Advisory Committee; Bradford L. Therrell, University 
of Texas Health Science Center Department of Pediatrics, San Antonio, 
Texas, on behalf of the National Newborn Screening and Genetics 
Resource Center; and Jill Wood, Fairfax, Virginia.