The image of a doctor with a stethoscope hanging around the neck may seem iconic, but in fact, this image may not last much longer, as hand-held ultrasound devices are predicted to replace ...

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 chest, and pressed his fingers against ...

The stethoscope is one of the oldest gadgets for doctors.Place it on the chest and listen with your ears.The basic usage has not changed for decades.However, today, 'digital stethoscopes' that can ...

Stethoscopes help diagnose and heal, but this primary tool of physicians also has significant potential to spread germs from patient to patient, a new study reports. The diaphragm of a stethoscope -- ...

The medical professional wearing a stethoscope is a familiar image, but Northwestern University wants to change that. Instead of someone hanging an ancient device around their neck to listen inside of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The basic premise of the stethoscope has been around for centuries, largely unchanged. Jonathan Kitchen/DigitalVision via Getty ...

A new study says doctor’s stethoscopes carry lots of bacteria that can be transferred from patient to patient during appointments. Researchers from University of Geneva Hospitals collected and studied ...

In 2015, Wojciech Radomski posted a message on Facebook looking for doctors. He had spent ten years running a software firm based in Poznan, Poland, building IT systems for big companies, but had ...

Every time you visit a doctor, they check your heartbeat using a stethoscope. It is a medical device that is used to listen to internal sounds of the human body. Have you ever wondered how medical ...

For years the dangling stethoscope has been the symbol of the physician. But just how reliable a piece of equipment is it? Cardiologist Dale Groom at the Medical College of South Carolina has long ...