Dr Eric Topol speaks often of the disruption that is coming in the practice of medicine. He calls it creative destruction, and he argues that mobile devices and the technology that run them will be ...

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 ...

CHICAGO – 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 ...

Is the stethoscope going the way of the dodo--to be replaced by handheld ultrasound? In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Scott D. Solomon, M.D., and Fidencio Saldana, M.D., of ...

Kochi: The humble stethoscope could avoid unnecessary use of more expensive investigations like echocardiography for diagnosis of cardiac defects and allow for substantial reductions in healthcare ...

Is high-tech imaging replacing rubber tubing and ear buds? Doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient’s chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Thirty-five-year-old Paris physician Rene ...

For those of us who understand the music of cardiovascular sound and the changes in it according to the condition of a patient, stethoscope can never be obsolete A physician without a stethoscope is ...

The humble stethoscope — the most recognisable symbol of the medical profession for nearly 200 years — may be on its way out, according to researchers, including one of Indian-origin. The world of ...

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 ...

A disembodied voice may be talking to your doctor through his new stethoscope. But don't worry, he's not losing touch with reality. The voice belongs to a high-tech system developed by Stamford-based ...