Hardly a medical examination goes by without the frigid kiss of a stethoscope against one’s chest, while we search the practitioner’s face for a telltale frown revealing something wrong from ...

When children play doctor with each other, they listen to the chest with a toy stethoscope, take a blood pressure with a small hand pump, look into the mouth and eyes with a fake light ...

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 ...

Only about 40-percent of murmurs can be detected during a physical exam by a clinician with a regular stethoscope. But this new stethoscope, developed by EKO Health, and the new technology with it ...

Kids love to play doctor — using a stethoscope to check on their teddy’s health or prodding their parent’s forehead with a fake thermometer. But aside from being fun, this kind of ...