The Apgar score evaluates a newborn on five critical criteria: Appearance (skin color), Pulse (heart rate), Grimace response (reflexes), Activity (muscle tone), and Respiration (breathing effort).

It's said that "every baby born in a modern hospital in the world is looked at first through the eyes of Dr. Virginia Apgar." In a 1964 video, Dr. Apgar assists a nurse through checking a newborn ...

The rates of very pre-term delivery, pre-term delivery, very LBW, LBW, SGA, very low Apgar score, low Apgar score and neonatal mortality were higher in teenage pregnancies. They were consistently ...