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 remains a staple ...

You can lead a doctor to disinfection, but how do you get them to clean…or wipe ….or swab a stethoscope? That's the question raised by a new quality improvement ...

In what comes as a significant development, doctors have successfully developed an artificial intelligence-led stethoscope which can detect three heart conditions in under 15 seconds. This hi-tech ...

Stethoscopes powered by artificial intelligence (AI) could help medics detect three different heart conditions in seconds, according to researchers. The technology is able to analyse subtle difference ...

After 50 years of fighting infectious diseases at Lehigh Valley Health Network Jefferson, Dr. Luther Rhodes is hanging up his stethoscope. "It is a new chapter," said Rhodes. That new chapter begins ...

Heart failure during pregnancy is a dangerous and often under-detected condition because common symptoms -- shortness of breath, extreme fatigue and trouble breathing while lying down -- are easily ...