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 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 ...

To hear a patient's heart, doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient's chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Lore has it that 35-year-old Paris physician Rene Laennec was caring for a ...

This device allows doctors to listen to your lungs and heartbeat from another room Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints appoints 14 men to council, including ‘Chosen’ producer and popular ...

A research study seeks volunteers with stethoscope training to take a listening test lasting 10 to 15 minutes. For more information, contact Valerie Rennoll, [email protected] or 717-887-9131.

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 ...