The Apgar score has long served as a rapid and effective tool for assessing the immediate physiological state of a newborn. By evaluating five key criteria—heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, ...

In medicine, inertia can be a strangely powerful force, but Virginia Apgar never succumbed to it. She brought incredible energy to her work in anesthesia, neonatology, and dysmorphology (the study of ...

The birth of a baby is thrilling for parents. But the delivery room can be confusing with medical personnel and lots of monitors. A number of screenings for newborns are given right away, including ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Virginia Apgar noticed something odd. Despite the US infant mortality rate decreasing overall, a high number of infants were still dying within 24 hours of birth. Part of ...

A 5-minute Apgar score < 7 was significantly associated with increased risks for in-hospital mortality, severe intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), retinopathy of ...

Between the 1930s and the 1950s, something sort of strange happened in the United States. The infant mortality rate went into decline, but the number of babies that died within 24 hours of birth ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The 5-minute Apgar score assigned to infants immediately after delivery varies considerably among different observers, Australian investigators concluded after viewing the ...

Virginia Apgar kept score for America's babies and coveted scores on the violin as well. She was a doctor, musician, instrument maker — and an overall pioneering female physician who overcame the ...

A standard screening test given to newborns minutes after birth is a less accurate predictor of infant mortality for Black babies than other children, a new study shows, but the authors said the Apgar ...

How important is Dr. Virginia Apgar to the modern practice of obstetrics? Here is the way the National Library of Medicine's website puts it: "[E]very baby born in a modern hospital anywhere in the ...

Women exposed to agricultural pesticides, even before becoming pregnant, may be putting their newborn's health at risk. A new University of Arizona study links those exposures to poorer health in ...