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 ...

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 ...

When the stethoscope is pressed against the body, sound waves make the diaphragm – the flat metal disc part of the device – and the bell-shaped underside vibrate. That channels the sound waves up ...

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 ...

In 1816 the ubiquitous stethoscope, in modern times a symbol of medicine itself, made its first appearance - but it may be coming close to extinction. In 1816 the ubiquitous stethoscope, in modern ...

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 ...

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 against ...

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 ...

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.

Today anyone who wants to illustrate ‘a doctor’ will include a stethoscope. What was used before its invention in 1816? Last week, thanks to a Google doodle celebrating the 235th anniversary of Réne ...

Ask any doctor and it’s likely they’ll remember it – the weight of it, the colour, the pride of wearing it for the first time. The day a medical student gets their first stethoscope is the day they ...