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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most interesting tools in a doctor's office is the stethoscope. It has been representing doctors and has been their icon for the last 200 years. However, the universal tool of the ...

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 ...

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 modern stethoscope, made of rubber and later plastic, with a bell-like end that is placed on the patient, emerged in the 1890s and since then doctors have rarely been seen without them.

A recent Mayo Clinic study showed stethoscopes are spreading germs.The research found the medical tool can become more germ infested than a doctor's hands, but local doctors are finding ways to ...