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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Asthma Activities, Persistent, triGGers, Asthma medications, Response to therapy, or APGAR, tool was an ...

The Apgar test grades infants in five areas, including skin tone. Babies of color score lower, and may be subjected to unnecessary treatment. By Roni Caryn Rabin Shortly after they’re born, infants ...

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 ...

While you may not know who Dr Virginia Apgar is, she has touched the lives of almost every baby born today. Dr Virginia Apgar was an American obstetrical anesthetist and a leader in her field. She ...

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 ...

Use of a new asthma assessment tool called APGAR leads to improved asthma control and improved patient outcomes in terms of asthma-related emergency, urgent care, and hospital visits, according to a ...