Home fetal doppler devices were banned from sale in Australia last year but they are still readily available for purchase online, prompting experts to issue warnings.

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 ...

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, ...

Objective: To evaluate the value of combined fetal heart V-angle (VSA), cardiothoracic ratio (CTR), whole heart spherical index (GSI) and axis of the heart (CAx) in predicting congenital heart disease ...

Using a combination for spatial, single-cell transcriptomics and imaging data from 36 hearts, scientists from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and their collaborators have come up with what they ...

New research in Sweden has produced a "blueprint" revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development. It offers insights that could lead to improved prenatal care and new treatments ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Monitoring fetal heart rate during labor allows for the early detection of anomalies and proactive intervention before complications arise. In our context, two types of ...

Diabetes during pregnancy—whether pre-existing or gestational—may lead to increased fat accumulation around the fetal heart, according to a new meta-analysis published in Biomolecules and Biomedicine.