In the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Virginia Apgar noticed something odd. Despite the US infant mortality rate decreasing overall, a high number of infants were still dying within 24 hours of birth.

An Apgar score, ranging from zero to 10, is assigned to infants one, five, and sometimes 10 minutes after birth in nearly every delivery room, based on heart rate, muscle tone, reflexes, breathing ...

The Asthma APGAR tools, including an asthma control assessment completed by patients and linked to an asthma management algorithm, were tested in a randomized controlled study of 18 family ...