{"id":49193,"date":"2026-03-24T04:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scotland-becomes-first-in-uk-to-test-newborns-for-rare-genetic-condition\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:44:04","slug":"scotland-becomes-first-in-uk-to-test-newborns-for-rare-genetic-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scotland-becomes-first-in-uk-to-test-newborns-for-rare-genetic-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland becomes first in UK to test newborns for rare genetic condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) causes progressive muscle weakness and, without treatment, can limit life expectancy to just two years.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx26glrw310o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) causes progressive muscle weakness and, without treatment, can limit life expectancy to just two years. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4233,12178,1721,1793,688,318],"class_list":["post-49193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-condition","tag-genetic","tag-newborns","tag-rare","tag-scotland","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49195,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49193\/revisions\/49195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}