Pediatric: These smaller size stethoscopes pick up higher tones and are just the right size for children’s bodies. They have both a bell (open) side and a diaphragm (covered with a membrane) side.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- After more than four decades of caring for children, a beloved Louisville pediatrician is hanging up her stethoscope. Dr. Beverly Gaines took to social media this week to ...

Pediatric stethoscopes often have smaller diaphragms and bells that are more suitable for infants and children. Adult stethoscopes may have larger heads. Frequently asked questions about stethoscopes.

With support from the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins electrical and computer engineer Mounya Elhilali is developing a smart digital stethoscope aimed at revolutionizing pulmonary ...

Your pediatrician listens to your child's heart with a stethoscope to assess its function and health. They hear the first and second heartbeats caused by the valves closing, but they also listen ...

A Massachusetts pediatrician’s license has been suspended after he was accused of making unwanted physical contact with patients’ families. Dr. Jonathan A. Benjamin, who owns his own practice in ...

Dr. Errol Baptist's office in Rockford, Illinois, has been inundated with patients lately, and it's not because there is a bug going around. The widely trusted, well-known pediatrician is shutting ...

A new study in Engineering details the development of a wearable stethoscope with a Lung–Sound–Monitoring–Patch (LSMP). It can monitor lung sounds in real-time, detect wheezing automatically ...

File photo of a doctor holding a stethoscope. Nancy Goodman of the advocacy group Kids v Cancer, told Newsweek how the group spent 15 years trying to secure research funding cut from a spending bill.

To enhance home monitoring, researchers from the Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Rheumatology at the University of Lublin, Poland, experimented with the StethoMe stethoscope, which enables ...