PEDIATRICS Vol. 32 No. 2 August 1963, pp. 308-309
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Experience with Testing for Phenylketonuria in Massachusetts

ROBERT A. MACCREADY M.D.1

1 Director Diagnostic Laboratories, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain 30, Massachusetts

Because it seems unfortunate that misunderstandings in some places have delayed the inauguration of screening programs for phenylketonuria (PKU) in newborns, I am sending this or a similar letter to the editors of five or six medical journals. It occurred to me that a preliminary published note regarding the 10-month experience of Massachusetts in the nation-wide PKU newborn screening project might be of value to physicians and health officers of other states, especially in states not presently participating or participating only on a limited basis.