A new study published in Engineering presents a breakthrough in medical technology with the development of a wearable stethoscope that can accurately monitor lung sounds in real-time and automatically ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

Call to your mind an image of your doctor. Go ahead. I'll wait. Got it? I'm willing to bet that, whether your doctor is young or old, man or woman, you imagined a person wearing a white lab coat and a ...

Eko Devices announced that it has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Eko Core digital stethoscope, the first and only stethoscope to wirelessly stream heart sounds ...

The team sought to maintain appropriate contact of the wearable microphone system to the skin. When compared to the commercial stethoscope, the thin and flexible digital stethoscope formed conformable ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 24, 2016) - For the first time in history, clinicians are able to capture patients' heart and lung sounds and integrate them into the electronic health record ...

Sounding the chest with a cold stethoscope is probably one of the most commonly used diagnostics in the medical room after peering down the back of the throat while the patient says, "Aaaah". But a ...

Pneumonia-related infections kill almost 1 million children each year worldwide, and they are the leading cause of death for children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011, a team of Johns Hopkins ...

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 more than 200 years and remains a ...