The day he was sworn in as speaker of the Missouri House, Jon Patterson declared that defining fetal viability could be a difficult task. A surgeon serving his fourth term in the legislature, ...

When Missouri voters decide in less than three weeks whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, the ballot measure before them will include a legal definition of fetal viability ...

Fetal viability refers to how soon a fetus can be born and survive outside of its mother's womb. Fetal viability is typically set at 23 weeks of gestation but varies depending on certain factors.

There is no magical amount of viable ventricular myocardium that makes percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) an effective addition to optimal medical therapy (OMT) in stable patients with coronary ...