Italian Society

Italian Society

Newborn screening is a public health program of screening in infants shortly after birth for a list of conditions that are treatable, but not clinically evident in the newborn period [...]
Inborn Metabolic Diseases, called also Inborn Errors of Metabolism, are a large group of genetic diseases caused by malfunctioning of a specific metabolic pathway [...]
The Italian Society for the Study of Inborn Metabolic Diseases and Newborn Screening (SIMMESN) originates from the merger of the two previously existing Societies, the Italian Society for the Study of Inherited Metabolic Diseases (SISMME) and theItalian Society for Newborn Screening (SISN), as agreed in the joint Meeting held in Palermo on 29 October 2008 [...]