The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to TytoCare Inc's digital stethoscope, which is intended for use by consumers and will provide the "missing link that will help ...

The stethoscope – the most used and recognized symbol of medicine – is getting a modern, digital makeover. While preserving the standard look and function of traditional stethoscopes, a digital ...

Sophia Antipolis, 5 February 2026: New research shows that the use of an AI-enabled digital stethoscope more than doubled the identification of moderate to severe valvular heart disease during routine ...

I’ve read that the stethoscope is being replaced in many practices by handheld Dopplers. Please say it isn’t so. —Chagai Dubrawsky, MD, Houston It isn’t so and will not be so, though your question ...

A new health topic may soon be included in your routine primary care visit: loneliness. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said in May that the “epidemic of loneliness and isolation has been an ...

Thinklabs' Stethoscope App for iPhone revolutionizes the stethoscope with display, recording and email of heart and lung sounds right at the bedside, in the physician office or remote care environment ...

“It must be confessed that there is something even ludicrous in the picture of a grave physician formally listening through a long tube applied to the patient’s thorax, as if the disease within were a ...

Cropped of female doctor examining patient. Medical professional checking woman’s back with stethoscope in clinic. What is the power of touch and how has it played into the history of clinical ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans die from heart disease–the leading cause of death in the country. In some ...

A portable ultrasound device is useful in the initial assessment of patients referred to the outpatient cardiology clinic, according to a new study published in Heart. The device detects some cardiac ...