It can be difficult to decide whether to expedite birth when a woman in the final stage of pregnancy perceives less fetal movements.

Trellis Health’s new “heartbeat feature” offers parents-to-be the opportunity to feel their baby’s pulse in their palm anytime they like.

Echocardiography is essential for evaluating cardiac anatomy and function during early recognition and screening for congenital heart disease (CHD), a widespread and complex congenital malformation.

More: South Carolina Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on abortion ban law Planned Parenthood argued that a “fetal heartbeat” cannot happen until the four chambers of the heart ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s ‘fetal heartbeat’ law in a Wednesday ruling. Justices ruled the state can continue to ban abortion starting at six weeks of gestation ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued an opinion upholding the state's "fetal heartbeat" law, banning abortions after six weeks.

When lawmakers debated the fetal heartbeat ban, which went into effect in 2023, they repeatedly said the ban would be at about six weeks, making it the legislative intent of the law. “The ...

Methods: A total of 180 fetuses with normal heart structures, aged 24–40 weeks of gestation, were examined. A 2–3 s cine loop in the standard four-chamber oblique view was captured and analyzed using ...

One medical group’s deceptions about fetal heartbeats are still being taken far more seriously in the courts than they deserve to be.

Conclusion: We confirmed that the four-section approach in early pregnancy has a good diagnostic efficacy for fetal CHD. Intrauterine evolution of the fetal heart, missed diagnosis, and misdiagnosis ...