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 ...

Can you imagine getting your own free stethoscope to use at home for telehealth exams with your doctor? Sounds pretty cool -- even for those who never played doctor when they were kids. The idea ...

How did a physician listen to a patient’s heartbeat or breathing before the invention of the stethoscope? He listened, he put his ear right down on the patient’s chest, and pressed his fingers against ...

When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they’re a clinician. This medical device has been around for over 200 years and remains a staple ...

You can lead a doctor to disinfection, but how do you get them to clean…or wipe ….or swab a stethoscope? That's the question raised by a new quality improvement ...

The medical professional wearing a stethoscope is a familiar image, but Northwestern University wants to change that. Instead of someone hanging an ancient device around their neck to listen inside of ...