Following the Israeli invasion of Gaza three years ago, emergency room doctor Tarek Loubani frequently found himself holding his ear to the chest of victims, for lack of a $200 dollar stethoscope.

The image of a doctor with a stethoscope hanging around the neck may seem iconic, but in fact, this image may not last much longer, as hand-held ultrasound devices are predicted to replace 200 ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - They're a symbol of healing, but a new study finds one of the tools doctors use can be a magnet for bacteria. The diaphragm of a stethoscope — the round piece placed against a ...

Doctor in Gaza Prints $5 Stethoscope. By Katharine Schwab. September 11, 2015. Share. Save. Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s ...

Though doctors may disinfect their hands to prevent spreading illness, there may be another bacteria-ridden object they have on them that doesn't get the same cleaning treatment: their stethoscopes.

The stethoscope may be the iconic medical tool that most doctors cannot do without, to diagnose and cure their patients' illnesses. Unfortunately, it may also be a cesspool of germs that could ...

Dr. Eric Topol, a world-renowned cardiologist, considers the stethoscope obsolete, nothing more than a pair of "rubber tubes." It "was OK for 200 years," Topol said. But "we need to go beyond that.

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According to Dr H Kenneth Walker, it's thought that for the next 10 years every stethoscope in existence was turned on the lathe by Laennec himself, external, and they were given out free with his ...

Doctors’ Stethoscopes Can Transmit Bacteria As Easily As Unwashed Hands New research shows that the instruments could be a vector for bacterial infections—a concern, as they’re infrequently ...

The image of a doctor with a stethoscope hanging around the neck may seem iconic, but in fact, this image may not last much longer, as hand-held ultrasound devices are predicted to replace 200 ...