Newborns will now be tested for more genetic diseases.

Tania Garza is expecting a baby girl next month. It's not her first child, she already has a two-year-old boy.

"Whenever he was born, they took him for screenings right after I gave birth," Garza said.

Those screenings are done to test for genetic conditions. The state is adding four more conditions to test for lysosome disorders.

"It causes great damage. You can think of it as a lot of debris in places that it should not be in and results in severe cognitive deficit, developmental delays, muscle weakness," Hidalgo County Health Authority Dr. Ivan Melendez said.

These disorders can be deadly.

"In some of these diseases, children do not leave childhood with them, some they do. The earlier you can identify the disease, the sooner y

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