René Laennec, partly to protect the modesty of his female patients but also to make it possible to listen to the heart sounds of an obese woman, designs for stethoscopes have come to the familiar ...

The FDA has cleared an artificial intelligence algorithm that can detect signs of heart failure in seconds using a digital stethoscope during a standard physical exam. The algorithm was developed ...

The digital stethoscope market in the UK is expected to grow at a 5.8% CAGR, driven by the adoption of AI in healthcare and ...

Researchers from the University of Glasgow led the development of the new system, which uses radar to track patients' heart ...

Wearable heart sound devices represent a groundbreaking shift in cardiac care, offering continuous, non-invasive monitoring with the potential to revolutionise the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment ...

Astellas has licensed rights to a smart stethoscope device developed by Eko Health, that it will use as part of a digital therapeutic (DTx) approach to heart failure. The plan is to combine the ...

Stethoscopes are acoustic medical devices for listening to the internal sounds of a human or animal body. A stethoscope is often used to listen to the heart and lungs; it can also used to listen to ...

Nikki Fox/BBC Nurse Fatima Hajee checks patient Debbie Bygrave using the new Bluetooth stethoscope Heart recordings are collected by a Bluetooth stethoscope and an echocardiogram test. Thousands ...