Dr. Virginia Apgar, the inventor of the Apgar score, is being featured on the Google home page today on her 109th birthday. Dr. Virginia Apgar was born on June 7, 1909, in New Jersey, and in 1952 she ...
While you may not know who Dr Virginia Apgar is, she has touched the lives of almost every baby born today. Dr Virginia Apgar was an American obstetrical anesthetist and a leader in her field. She ...
During her career as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, Dr. Virginia Apgar attended over 20,000 births and saved countless more deliveries thanks to her Apgar score, a method to identify the health and ...
Between the 1930s and the 1950s, something sort of strange happened in the United States. The infant mortality rate went into decline, but the number of babies that died within 24 hours of birth ...
Dr. Virginia Apgar did not fear a challenge. An anesthesiologist by training, she climbed the ranks at New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in the 1930s and ’40s, when anesthesiology wasn’t ...
Today is the birthday of Dr. Virginia Apgar, who has helped make many, many, many birthdays possible. The pioneering doctor lived from June 7, 1909, to August 7, 1974, and is the subject of today's ...
June 7 (UPI) --Google is celebrating what would have been the 109th birthday of Apgar score inventor Dr. Virginia Apgar with a new Doodle. The Apgar score is the first standardized method for ...