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Cuban program for early detection of congenital adrenal hyperplasia

<p align="left">A program for early detection of congenital adrenal hyperplasia is currently developed by specialists and paramedic personnel of the North Children&#39;s Hospital Endocrinology Department in Santiago de Cuba.<div align="left"> </div><p align="left"> What causes this hereditary autosomic recessive disease is a cortisol deficit from cholesterol in the adrenal glands, and ambiguity in defining the sex of newborn babies is one of its consequences. Read More