The team sought to maintain appropriate contact of the wearable microphone system to the skin. When compared to the commercial stethoscope, the thin and flexible digital stethoscope formed conformable ...

Although healthcare workers’ hands are the main source of bacterial transmission in hospitals, physician’s stethoscopes have now been found to actually play a major role in spreading deadly infections ...

Although healthcare workers' hands are the main source of bacterial transmission in hospitals, physicians' stethoscopes appear to play a role. To explore this question, investigators assessed the ...

Two hundred years after it was invented to hear the heart's murmurs, the ubiquitous stethoscope - symbol of the medical profession - is once again at the centre of a raging debate on its utility.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In Newsday, American Council on Science and Health President Hank Campbell's article The stethoscope is about to celebrate its 200th birthday and it s about to say goodbye was featured, with an ...

IIT Bombay Researchers Get Patent For 'Smart Stethoscope'. How It's Different The IIT-B team has received a patent for the device that records the auscultated sound and stores it as part of a ...

Although your stethoscope is not as sensitive as the one your doctor uses, try listening to other functions such as your lungs or even your intestines after dinner! See if you can hear your body ...

René Laennec’s stethoscope gave doctors a new way to listen to patients – hearing their bodies, but perhaps not their voices. As Google produces a Doodle celebrating the inventor Vanessa Heggie looks ...