SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah lawmaker wants to add another test to the state’s newborn screening program.
A military family reached out to Sen. David Hinkins, R-Ferron, about their experience with pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency or PDCD. Now, he’d like to add PDCD to the list of more than 40 disorders that infants are screened for in this state.
“There’s a family that has a child [with] this disease. If they’d had a blood test on it when it was a baby, they would have been able to treat the baby,” Hinkins said…