When a newborn baby is critically ill with an infection such as sepsis, intensive care teams administer a common emergency antibiotic.
This saves lives but in some cases, that medication can lead to irreversible hearing loss.
Now there is a simple genetic test to help prevent this harm.
It’s to be rolled out nationally to help identify, within minutes, if a baby is at risk.
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