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 ...

A bruit - a kind of blowing noise heard via stethoscope over the carotid arteries in the neck - may indicate a raised risk of heart disease. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to think that one of the ...

Doctors look for tiny clues to suggest patients might not be as healthy as they look. One way is to listen for a carotid bruit. It's an abnormal sound doctors can hear through a stethoscope while ...

PANAMA CITY — The stethoscope was the first non-invasive tool Libby McNaron, a professor at Gulf Coast State College and nurse, learned to use. “When I worked the floor and intensive care units, I ...

THE recent literature has called attention to the increasing number of cases of hypertension due to unilateral renal-artery disease. A wide array of vascular abnormalities have been described, and ...

video: A recent study by Orlando Health found a smartphone-based device known as HeartBuds performed just as well as traditional stethoscopes and better than a disposable model in identifying heart ...

Washington: A new portable device and a smartphone app that can safely identify heart murmurs and other vital sounds during patient exams may replace the iconic stethoscope in future, scientists say.