For all the advances in medical diagnostics made over the last two centuries of modern medicine, from the ability to peer deep inside the body with the help of superconducting magnets to harnessing ...

“It must be confessed that there is something even ludicrous in the picture of a grave physician formally listening through a long tube applied to the patient’s thorax, as if the disease within were a ...

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 ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to make significant advancements in the field of medicine and healthcare, offering a array of applications that can improve patient care, diagnosis and treatment ...

The acoustic stethoscope, invented 200 years ago, is ubiquitous in the medical profession. The simple device amplifies the bioacoustic signals at the surface of a patient's body. On one side of the ...

Pneumonia-related infections kill almost 1 million children each year worldwide, and they are the leading cause of death for children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011, a team of Johns Hopkins ...

PROVO — COVID-19 is changing the way we do a lot of things, and one of those things include how you get treatment from a doctor. Craig Nuttall, a nursing professor at Brigham Young University in Provo ...