An inexpensive, disposable external medical device can now be bought and used by clinicians to monitor contractions in pregnant women. The tocodynamometer, marketed as Koala Toco, was approved in May ...

A team of eight Johns Hopkins University engineering undergrads have developed a device that could save the lives of thousands of pregnant women in developing countries. Called Toco Track, the device ...

When a woman in labor arrives at a hospital, one of the first things caregivers do is hook her up to a tocodynamometer, a device that monitors the timing and severity of uterine contractions, by ...