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 ...

A digital stethoscope that uses artificial intelligence (AI) is better at detecting heart murmurs associated with clinically significant valvular heart disease (VHD) than is a primary care physician ...

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