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 ...

Low Apgar scores are associated with infant mortality across racial groups, but there is variance across groups, according to a study published online July 12 in PLOS Medicine. The researchers found ...

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 ...

The Apgar score remains a cornerstone of immediate neonatal assessment, assigning a value from 0 to 10 based on five criteria—heart rate, respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability and ...

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 ...

Thursday’s Google">https://www.google.com/doodles/dr-virginia-apgars-109th-birthday">Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of Dr. Virginia Apgar, whose Apgar Score ...

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 ...

Funding: SJS is funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellowship 209560/Z/17/Z (https://wellcome.org). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision ...

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 ...

In his masterful book Better, surgeon Atul Gawande writes that in the 1950s, newborn babies in the United States faced great danger: "One in thirty still died at birth—odds that were scarcely better ...