In 1976, a young, first-time mother entered the hospital in spontaneous labor. She had not missed any prenatal visits, those visits had revealed no abnormalities, her pregnancy was full-term, and she ...

Checking the heart of the unborn baby usually involves a stethoscope. However, an inexpensive and accurate Bluetooth fetal heart rate monitoring system has now been developed by researchers in India ...

For about 20 years, doctors have routinely checked a baby’s heartbeat with an electronic monitor as the mother goes into labor. But an old-fashioned stethoscope might work just as well. The practice ...

A routine test which has been used over the past two decades to electronically monitor the heart-beat of a baby at the start of labour is probably no better than intermittent monitoring with a ...

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Is the stethoscope going the way of the dodo--to be replaced by handheld ultrasound? In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Scott D. Solomon, M.D., and Fidencio Saldana, M.D., of ...