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 ...

Background: There is considerable variation in assigning Apgar scores. Definitions are required to apply Apgar score under clinical conditions such as preterm delivery or resuscitation [Rüdiger et al.

DALLAS - It has been said that all babies born in modern hospitals are seen first through the eyes of Dr. Virginia Apgar. In 1952, Apgar, an anesthesiologist, developed a 10-point scoring system as a ...

You might not be familiar with Virginia Apgar, but her impact likely touched your life the moment you were born. Best known for creating a simple test, the longtime Tenafly resident revolutionized the ...

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 ...

Stanford University researchers have developed a method for predicting health problems in premature babies that they say is much more reliable than the standard Apgar score used to evaluate newborns’ ...