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 ...

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

The Withings Beamo is 4-in-1 health scanner that measures body temp, ECGs, blood oxygen saturation, and heart/lung health ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC) and Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes recently launched a free, open-access roundtable series, Medicine and Philosophy, on the SEC Channel. Organized by the ...

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A comparative analysis shows that stethoscope diaphragms are more contaminated than the physician's own thenar eminence (group of muscles in the palm of the hand) following a physical examination.