Mary Mediatrix Medical Center helped restore the hearing of a five-year-old patient through a cochlear implant procedure in March, which is National Hearing Month in the Philippines. The medical team ...
Clinical evaluations of newborns, as well as defining the therapeutic decision, represent significant challenges to the veterinarian. This study aimed to evaluate neonatal vitality using the modified ...
Dr. Joy Celyn Ignacio-Fajardo (center) lead the medical team that helped save a five-year-old’s hearing. (Contributed photo) MANILA, Philippines — Doctors at Mary Mediatrix Medical Center in Batangas ...
In his masterful book Better, surgeon Atul Gawande writes that in the 1950s, newborn babies in the United States faced great danger: "One in thirty still died at birth—odds that were scarcely better ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that the rate for c-sections should be about 10-15%. In high-income countries such as Australia, Britain and America, around a third of all mothers give ...
The Apgar score was originally developed to standardise the assessment of term-born infants' clinical condition at 1 min of life. However, accumulating research shows that the judgement at 5 and 10 ...
Communication is essential for family members to exchange ideas and feelings. This page houses resources for evaluating and maintaining effective family business communication. Introducing a New ...
You might not be familiar with Virginia Apgar, but her impact likely touched your life the moment you were born. Best known for creating a simple test, the longtime Tenafly resident revolutionized the ...
The Apgar Score is a quick assessment tool used to evaluate the physical condition of a newborn immediately after birth. It involves a rating on five criteria: appearance (skin color), pulse (heart ...
In medicine, inertia can be a strangely powerful force, but Virginia Apgar never succumbed to it. She brought incredible energy to her work in anesthesia, neonatology, and dysmorphology (the study of ...