I felt a little sad when I read a report from the “Scientific Session of the American Academy of Family Practice” last week. The keynote speaker, Dr. Eric Topol, a renowned cardiologist, reported that ...

Pneumonia, an acute respiratory condition which affects the lungs, kills millions of people around the world each year. This includes 16 percent of all children who die under the age of five. It’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The stethoscope is one of the oldest tools in medicine, but now it is getting a high-tech upgrade. ABC7 News met the young entrepreneurs who just got the green light to start ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (WPVI) -- The stethoscope has been a vital tool for health professionals since it was invented in 1816 by French physician Rene Laennec. But a new high-tech device is giving the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A traveling nurse who moved to San Francisco less than 24 hours ago to care for COVID patients had something very precious stolen from her after her van was broken into. 45 ...

Enrico Angelo, a determined medical student from Stellenbosch, shares his journey of selling fruit to buy a stethoscope, ...

Regardless of the technological advances made in the field of medicine, the stethoscope has, for the most part, remained unchanged. Silicon Valley start-up Eko Devices, however, looks to change that ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (KFSN) -- It's used by almost every doctor who has ever practiced medicine. But after two centuries of use, the stethoscope is finally getting an update that can help in the doctor's ...

Enrico Angelo, a Stellenbosch medical student, shares his journey of selling fruit to fund his dream of becoming a doctor, ...

Perhaps more than any other symbol, the stethoscope, medicine's low-tech but invaluable diagnostic tool, represents the physician. Moreover, while an incredible number of stethoscope designs have ...

About 200 years ago a French physician rolled a sheet of paper into a cylinder and held it up to the chest of a patient. The creation was crude and simple, but it worked. Rene Laenneac could better ...

Two centuries after its invention, the stethoscope — the very symbol of the medical profession — is facing an uncertain prognosis. It is threatened by handheld devices that are also pressed against ...