One of Planned Parenthood’s favored legal arguments against the heartbeat laws passed in many states is that fetal heartbeats aren’t “real.” Planned Parenthood has relied on the American ...

The study is published in the journal Circulation. Almost 30,000 children require heart surgery every year in Europe, so ...

If there’s a concern, patients can be referred for a fetal echocardiogram, which is a more detailed ultrasound looking at the heart and circulatory system. Fetal echocardiograms can also be ...

The maternal–fetal circulation was assessed with Doppler ultrasound of the ... after warming up and stayed at 40–75% of the initial value during exercise. Fetal heart rate (FHR) was within the normal ...