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.

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

Pregnant women often worry about their babies’ health in between doctor’s visits, but a new mobile app can help put them at ...

What if pregnant women could monitor their baby's heart rate using their mobile phone? The idea is not so far-fetched. A ...

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 ...

When does your baby develop a heartbeat? A baby's heartbeat (at this point a fluttering of cells) starts as early as to 4 weeks after conception or 6 weeks after the first day of the last menstrual ...