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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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* 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 ...

The doctor's stethoscope is a ubiquitous tool typically used early on during a medical examination, then put to the side. Northwestern University researchers are envisioning a kind of continuous, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

That early market research led Landgraf and his co-founders, Tyler Crouch and Jason Bellet, to launch Oakland, California-based Eko in 2013. The company’s digital stethoscopes utilize advances in ...

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 ...

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 ...