Withings BeamO securely captures heart and lung data at home – and shares it securely with your doctor for more effective ...

A new device that attaches to a standard stethoscope is able to send a patients’ heartbeat information directly to a providers’ smartphone or other mobile device for review and analysis. The adapter, ...

In infection centers treating patients exposed to Ebola, even a simple tool like a stethoscope can cause difficulties in treating patients, largely since the stethoscope can be a means of transmitting ...

History of your doctor’s stethoscope How did a physician listen to a patient’s heartbeat or breathing before the invention of the stethoscope? He listened, he put his ear right down on the patient’s ...

Doctors have been listening to the sounds our bodies make for years. Before the invention of stethoscopes, they simply put their ears to their patients' chests or abdomens. The technical term for this ...