Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grieving father listened to his son’s beating heart with a stethoscope two years after his death in a car accident. Jordan Spahn ...

A new device that attaches to a standard stethoscope is able to send a patients’ heartbeat information directly to a providers’ smartphone or other mobile device for review and analysis. The adapter, ...

Hearing your unborn baby’s heartbeat for the first time is something you’ll never forget. An ultrasound can pick up this beautiful sound as early as the 6th week, and you can hear it with a fetal ...

The iStetho Adapter, from start-up RidRx, converts an old stethoscope into an electronic one using an iPhone or iPod Touch and the iStethoscope Pro app. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth Armstrong ...

In recent years, the sounds it transmits from the heart, lungs, blood vessels and bowels have been digitized, amplified, filtered and recorded. Four months ago, the Food and Drug Administration ...

Introduction Around Valentine's Day heart-shaped images seem to be everywhere. But our actual hearts are at work all year—every hour, minute and second. The heart works hardest when we physically ...

A traditional stethoscope and physical examination is 95% accurate in detecting heart ailments in children and remains a valuable diagnostic tool in an era of increasing reliance on costlier ...