For all the advances in medical diagnostics made over the last two centuries of modern medicine, from the ability to peer deep inside the body with the help of superconducting magnets to harnessing ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Two centuries after its invention, the stethoscope — the very symbol of the medical profession — is facing an uncertain prognosis. It is threatened by hand-held devices that are also ...

The basic premise of the stethoscope has been around for centuries, largely unchanged. Jonathan Kitchen/DigitalVision via Getty Images When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a ...

Researchers developed a new digital stethoscope that combines precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology and machine learning applications into one piece of equipment to better detect heart ...

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 acoustic stethoscope, invented 200 years ago, is ubiquitous in the medical profession. The simple device amplifies the bioacoustic signals at the surface of a patient's body. On one side of the ...

“It must be confessed that there is something even ludicrous in the picture of a grave physician formally listening through a long tube applied to the patient’s thorax, as if the disease within were a ...

The stethoscope is used by nearly every doctor practicing medicine, and after 200 years, it's finally getting an update. A French physician invented the stethoscope two centuries ago so he wouldn't ...

Point-of-care, handheld ultrasound (HHUS) is already a valuable adjunct to the stethoscope and plays an important and increasing role in medical education and physical diagnosis. Whether it will ...

* AI stethoscope detects heart failure, AFib, and valve disease in just 15 seconds * More than doubles early detection rates in GP practices * Works in regular clinics without //advanced cardiac ...