In recent years, it's become painfully clear to everyone working in medicine that frequent hand washing is crucial to stopping the spread of infection in hospital settings. Nowadays, every hospital ...

Call it a May-December romance: The oldest tool in a doctor’s kit (a stethoscope) meets the youngest (a smartphone). Together, they make hearts race. They can hear, see, analyze and record those ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a large study of about 12,000 patients, the AI stethoscope proved highly effective. A team of researchers from Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has developed an ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...