Physicians who care for pregnant women have long sought to identify which of their patients would most likely benefit from monitoring of their fetus's heart rate to catch early signs of their unborn ...

SEATTLE — What if pregnant women could monitor their baby's heart rate using their mobile phone? The idea is not so far-fetched. A University of Washington PhD student is helping develop a smartphone ...

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 ...

University of Washington researchers built a smartphone app that tracks fetal heart rate as accurately as clinic tools. No extra hardware, no gel, just the phone’s own speaker and microphone. It’s ...

The University of Maryland Medical System has launched NEST — Neonatal Outcomes Impacted by Escalation Safety Telemetry — a groundbreaking remote fetal monitoring center that provides real-time ...

Some 99% 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 deaths per 1 ...