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 ...
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You no longer have to be in the same room as your doctor to have them listen to your heart. Waikato District Health Board is trialling the use of an electronic stethoscope - a New Zealand first. The ...
Kidney specialist Steven Peitzman, a professor at Drexel University College of Medicine, says physicians who are now in their 60s and 70s used to get praise if they had the "ear" to hear and interpret ...
Editor's note: One of the most intriguing stories we ran in 2015 looked at — and listened to — how the invention of the stethoscope changed medicine. We're presenting it again, in case you missed it ...
Itappears teensmay notbe the only frequent users of MP3 players in the future: Medical professionals may one dayswap music playersfor stethoscopes to listen to and record patients' heartbeats and ...
In a monthly column for PBS NewsHour, Dr. Howard Markel revisits moments that changed the course of modern medicine, like the invention of the stethoscope. Photo By BSIP/UIG via Getty Images. Long ...