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 ...

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 ...