Can Newborn Screening for Vitamin B12 Deficiency be Incorporated into All Newborn Screening Programs?

Vitamin B12 deficiency has a storied history including 2 Nobel Prizes, beginning with the discovery of an anemia by the English physician and scientist Thomas Addison in the 1840s. In the preface to his treatise on adrenal insufficiency (Addison disease), he described a  single case of what was termed “Addisonian anemia.”1 German physician Michael Biermer working in Zurich, more convincingly described what he termed “progressive pernicious anemia” in the 1870s, reporting 15 cases in great detail.

Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - October 11, 2019 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Sarah Hawthorne, Harvey L. Levy Tags: Editorials Source Type: research