To hear a patient’s heart, doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient’s chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Lore has it that 35-year-old Paris physician Rene Laennec was caring for a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Point-of-care cardiac ultrasound, now available in units as small as a smartphone, is being adopted by medical ...

CHICAGO – 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 pressed ...

Is high-tech imaging replacing rubber tubing and ear buds? Doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient’s chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Thirty-five-year-old Paris physician Rene ...

Is the stethoscope going the way of the dodo--to be replaced by handheld ultrasound? In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Scott D. Solomon, M.D., and Fidencio Saldana, M.D., of ...

To hear a patient's heart, doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient's chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Lore has it that 35-year-old Paris physician Rene Laennec was caring for a ...

Stethoscopes powered by artificial intelligence (AI) could aid medics in detecting three different heart conditions in mere seconds, researchers suggest. The technology can analyse subtle differences ...

A disembodied voice may be talking to your doctor through his new stethoscope. But don't worry, he's not losing touch with reality. The voice belongs to a high-tech system developed by Stamford-based ...