Fetal heart monitoring is a common practice used by healthcare providers to examine a baby’s heart rate during the latter stages of pregnancy and throughout labor and delivery. Your healthcare ...

University of Washington researchers built a smartphone app that tracks fetal heart rate as accurately as clinic tools using only the phone's speaker and mic, though it's not ready for release yet.

Fetal monitoring is used during labor to listen to the baby's heart sounds and measure the contractions of the uterus. Despite debates and major concerns about the proven ability for fetal monitoring ...

SAN DIEGO -- Frequent fetal heart monitoring is not needed in every pregnant woman testing positive for anti-SSA/anti-Ro autoantibodies, but it's definitely advisable for those with high titers, ...

The primary aim of the ELAINE project is to assess the effectiveness of using active dry electrodes for fetal ECG (fECG) monitoring. The project intends to replace the traditional method of monitoring ...

Re “Doctors Stick With Unreliable Medical Tool to Justify C-Sections” (front page, Nov. 7): As the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, I found that this article, ...

Ninety-nine percent of global newborn deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where pregnant women often struggle to access adequate fetal monitoring. In Tanzania, with 24 neonatal ...

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found. Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to ...

A hair-thin, soft robotic probe inserted through existing surgical ports to continuously track multiple fetal vitals in real time. Northwestern University researchers have developed the first device ...

Research Fellow University of Notre Dame Australia; Adjunct Fellow (National Institute of Complementary Medicine), Western Sydney University, University of Notre Dame Australia Deborah Fox has ...