[Federal Register: October 20, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 202)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities; 
Meeting

Name: Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis (CF).

Times and Dates: 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., November 20, 2003. 7:50 a.m.-4 p.m., 
November 21, 2003.

Place: Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown, 590 West Peachtree Street 
NW., Atlanta, Georgia 30308-3586, Telephone (404) 881-6000.

Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.

Purpose: The meeting will review the recommendations from the 1997 
Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis: A Paradigm for Public Health 
Genetics Policy Workshop, and will evaluate the current evidence 
examining the benefits and risks of screening newborns for CF. In 
addition, the meeting will review the role of screening, diagnostics, 
and follow-up issues in CF newborn screening decision-making.

Matters to be Discussed: The agenda will include an overview of newborn 
screening; the role of evidence based decision-making; the epidemiology 
and natural history of the disease; a review of the published and 
unpublished literature assessing the risks and benefits of screening 
newborns for CF; discussion about grading the evidence; weighting risks 
and benefits; planning challenges; screening issues; informed consent; 
diagnostics and sweat testing referrals, linking screening programs 
with CF centers for care of diagnosed infants; implications for state 
programs considering screening; communication; costs; and the evidence 
to support a public health response to CF newborn screening.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Grosse, Ph.D., National Center 
on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC, 1600 Clifton 
Road, NE, m/s E-87, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/498-3074.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services office, has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to 
announcements of meetings and other committee management activities for 
both CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.


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    Dated: October 9, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-26270 Filed 10-17-03; 8:45 am]

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