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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's said that "every baby born in a modern hospital in the world is looked at first through the eyes of Dr. Virginia Apgar." In a 1964 video, Dr. Apgar assists a nurse through checking a newborn's ...

Dr. Virginia Apgar has helped save millions of newborn lives with the method that bears her name Influential physician and New Jersey native Dr. Virginia Apgar devised a system in the 1950s to assess ...