An app developed by a UW computer science Ph.D. student has shown promise in monitoring fetal heart rate by mimicking Doppler ...

A bill introduced in the Ohio House would require the registration of all fetal deaths, along with the filing of a certificate of life after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.

In a clinical study involving 23 pregnant women in their second and third trimesters, the app estimated fetal heart rate with ...

Medically reviewed by Renita White, MD Key Takeaways For most of a pregnancy, normal fetal heart rate will average between 110 and 160 beats per minute.Normal variations in fetal heart rate occur when ...

A world-renowned team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia performed fetal surgery to remove a tumor on the lining of an unborn baby girl’s heart. Months later, she is healthy, thriving, and at home ...

A newly passed Iowa bill would ban nearly all abortions after a "fetal heartbeat" is detected around the sixth week of pregnancy — but Iowa doctors say the term inaccurately characterizes that stage ...

Poojita Garg, a PhD student at UW, is developing a smartphone app that would allow for the monitoring of fetal heart rate by ...

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed legislation banning abortions​ after embryotic cardiac activity can be detected, but a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a ban on most abortions this month, the majority wrote that they were leaving “for another day” a decision on when, exactly, the “fetal ...

A FETUS OR AN EMBRYO THAT HAS NO SENSE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, SELF AWARENESS. AND DESPITE HOW THE BILL IS WRITTEN, THAT IS NOT A HEARTBEAT. I DO ULTRASOUNDS. IT IS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY. THERE IS NO HEART AT ...

South Carolina's Supreme Court upheld the state's 2023 fetal heartbeat law, banning abortions after cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks. The law allows exceptions for medical ...