Shortly after the birth of your baby, medical staff will perform a health check, which is called the Apgar score. It’s a ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: The Apgar picnic area is a great place to launch your kayaks, canoes and paddleboards if Apgar Village feels a little too crowded. It's located a short distance east of Apgar ...

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 ...

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 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 ...