Holly Wayment interviews Dr. Alice Gong about updated newborn screening guidelines, expanded blood tests (now 59–60), additions like lysosomal storage disorders and SMA, point-of-care screens (hearing and critical congenital heart disease), and newborn blood spot retention and consent policies.

The episode covers testing timelines, follow-up coordination between hospitals and pediatricians, counseling families about results, special considerations for premature or critically ill infants, and emerging genomic approaches.

Holly Wayment and the Department of Pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio bring you this episode featuring Dr. Eric Horvitz from Microsoft, who explores the history, recent breakthroughs, and future directions of AI in medicine. He discusses advances from early expert systems to modern generative, multimodal, and agentic AI, and practical applications like diagnostic orchestration and tumor board support.

Dr. Horvitz highlights trends such as scale, real-time reasoning, cross-modality models, and human-AI collaboration, and emphasizes challenges around reliability, integration, ethics, and regulation while arguing for thoughtful adoption to improve healthcare outcomes.

link for CME credit coming soon!

Host Holly Wayment speaks with Dr. Deena Sutter about rising H3N2 influenza activity, a partial vaccine mismatch, and what pediatricians and families should do as cases climb.

They discuss vaccine effectiveness, when to test and treat, masking and infection control, and specific guidance to protect babies too young to be vaccinated.

The episode also covers a local pertussis outbreak, the role of vaccination gaps, and practical communication tips for clinicians to counsel vaccine-hesitant parents.