Discover a creative way to amplify your smartphone's sound with this easy DIY project. Learn how to repurpose a stethoscope and plastic bottles to build a homemade phone speaker amplifier. Follow step ...

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 ...

The stethoscope may be an icon of the medical profession to most patients. But it’s more of a relic to many doctors. The device used to listen to the heart, lungs and other body parts — invented ...

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 ...

An iPhone app that works as a stethoscope may change the way doctors work in a heartbeat. So far, some three million physicians have downloaded the $0.99 iStethoscope to be able to monitor the heart ...

Source: estableman/Pixabay René Laennec and Anna Li are both innovative problem-finders from the world of medicine. In the 1860s, Laennec, a French physician, wanted a more effective way to listen to ...

A new study suggests stethoscopes need to be cleaned more diligently. The stethoscope has long been an iconic symbol of health care used for listening to the heart, intestines, lungs and blood flow.

Some experts are saying its time for doctors to toss their stethoscopes in the trash. Dr. Jagat Narula, associate dean for global affairs at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Dr. Bret ...

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 ...