(THE CONVERSATION) When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they’re a clinician. This medical device has been around for over 200 years and ...

Source: estableman/Pixabay René Laennec and Anna Li are both innovative problem-finders from the world of medicine. In the 1860s, Laennec, a French physician, wanted a more effective way to listen to ...

The device may help boost early detection of HFrEF for people living in low-resource settings where echo is scarce.

Stethoscopes can provide vital information about the heart, lungs, and key bodily functions. There are several available to buy online that can help shed light on a person’s health. A low cost yet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mayo Clinic in Rochester has been using this AI algorithm for a few years, Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez said. It will be added to Eko Health's stethoscopes following a recent FDA approval. An Eko ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - When the purple and gold hit the field this football season, they will have a new teammate to help when they turn black and blue. The sports medicine team will begin using ...