Tag: Newborn Screening Program of Minas Gerais

Considered as the user’s entry door to the Unified Health System (SUS), UBS, as health basic units are known, have an essential role in guaranteeing access to good quality service for the population. With an average of 17 thousand users, UBS Vila Militar, located in Bethânia neighbourhood in Ipatinga (MG), has performed this role since […]

Larissa Gabriele and Lucas Patrick are 19-year-old twin siblings who share more than their physical features and their emotional connection.  They are from Sabará (MG) and both keep daily care to control the congenital hypothyroidism, diagnosed in neonatal screening (heel prick test). This condition is characterized for the malfunction in the thyroid gland, which is […]