NASA Daily News Summary
For Release: Feb. 23, 2000
Media Advisory m00-35


SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES:

TINY HEARTS MONITORED BY NASA TECHNOLOGY



VIDEO:

Video File for Feb. 23, 2000

ITEM 1 - FETAL HEART MONITOR - LARC

ITEM 2 - STS-99 LANDING (REPLAY)

ITEM 3 - SIGNS OF SPRING ON MARS - NEW MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR (MGS)
         IMAGES - JPL



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NEWS RELEASES:


TINY HEARTS MONITORED BY NASA TECHNOLOGY

A NASA technology originally used to measure airflow over airplane
wings has been successfully used to develop a portable, non-
invasive, easy-to-use fetal heart monitor.  The new clinically
proven fetal heart monitor takes advantage of aerospace technology
to make it more affordable, portable and easy to use by expectant
mothers in their own homes.  What's more, it "listens, documents
and stores" fetal heart-rate data without injecting energy into
the womb, making it totally non-invasive.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Michael Braukus
(Phone 202/358-1979).
Contact at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA:  H.
Keith Henry (Phone 757/864-6120/24).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-031.txt



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Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html



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megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.

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Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

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continue to be posted at:
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For general information about NASA TV see:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/



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