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This table presents counts of disorders that have been diagnosed by the California Newborn Screening program during the five-year period from 2009 through 2013. Counts of cases are presented by California regions. Disorder counts were suppressed where the statewide total was < 50, or if <5 in any individual region. The regions are combinations of counties having over 50,000 births (see attached Data Dictionary).The disorders included are part of the core recommended panel put forth by the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (SACHDNC) established under the Section 1111 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, 42 U.S.C. 300b-10, as amended in the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2008. The Committee recommends that every state newborn screening program include a uniform screening panel that currently includes 31 core disorders; the Genetic Disease Screening program screens for all of the core conditions excluding newborn hearing loss screening and critical congenital heart disease screening which are programs administered by the Department of Health Care Services. Not all disorders are displayed due to small numbers.