The test of health given to all infants just moments after they're born may also indicate trouble in school for a few of those infants once they become teenagers, a new study shows. Researchers looked ...

OBJECTIVE: The American Academy of Pediatrics and American Heart Association sponsored Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) was started in Illinois 1987 to standardize knowledge and skills for ...

Used as an overall measure of a baby’s vitality, the Apgar score tests five physiological signs — heart rate, respiratory effort, ­reflex irritability, muscle tone and skin colour — one and five ...

Today's Google doodle is celebrating what would have been the 109th birthday of American anesthesiologist Dr Virginia Apgar. She may not be a well-known name here in the UK but she worked heavily in ...