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 ...

The stethoscope is a medical instrument used to listen to and amplify the internal sounds produced by the body. Physicians still use the sounds they hear through stethoscopes as initial indicators of ...

The stethoscope — invented in 1816 — is long overdue for a redesign, according to Davinder Ramsingh, MD, an anesthesiologist at Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center. “Now, just over 200 years ...

Eko, a digital stethoscope developer which secured FDA clearance last year for DUO, a device used by patients to record heart sounds and do a remote EKG test from home, has closed a $5 million Series ...

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 ...

The humble stethoscope carried by physicians and other professionals in the intensive care unit (ICU) is laden with a wide range of bacteria, including bacteria known to cause infections acquired in ...

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 ...

Many inventions get revised over time. The pandemic gave one medical school student an idea about changing the stethoscope.

First-year medical students at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Arizona and Rochester participated in stethoscope ...

A new study suggests stethoscopes need to be cleaned more diligently. The stethoscope has long been an iconic symbol of health care used for listening to the heart, intestines, lungs and blood flow.