In a monthly column for PBS NewsHour, Dr. Howard Markel revisits moments that changed the course of modern medicine, like the invention of the stethoscope. Photo By BSIP/UIG via Getty Images. Long ...

LAWRENCE - There is encouraging news about the role of artificial intelligence in health care. Normally, blood flows from one heart chamber to another, passing through little doors called valves that ...

The evolution of modern medicine has led to a critical reliance on stethoscopes in the daily care of our patients. Stethoscopes, also considered to be the "third hand," are used routinely by almost ...

Pneumonia, an acute respiratory condition which affects the lungs, kills millions of people around the world each year. This includes 16 percent of all children who die under the age of five. It’s ...

A team of researchers in the UK say their AI-powered stethoscope can detect three different heart conditions in just 15 seconds. It’s also, they readily admit, horrendously inaccurate. Placed over the ...

Two centuries after its invention, the stethoscope — the very symbol of the medical profession — is facing an uncertain prognosis. It is threatened by hand-held devices that are also pressed against ...

Roxette and D.H.T. sang, "listen to your heart." But if a stethoscope is used to do so, what bacteria may be calling for you? Determining the types of bacteria found on stethoscopes was the goal of a ...

The first artificial intelligence (AI) stethoscope has gone beyond listening to a heartbeat. Researchers at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust discovered that an AI ...

To hear a patient's heart, doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient's chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Lore has it that 35-year-old Paris physician Rene Laennec was caring for a ...

We've all been there. You're driving along and you begin to hear a noise that wasn't there before. You know something might be wrong, but you just can't seem to pinpoint where the sound is coming from ...

Annette is a sweet little girl with a big heart for animals. She loves to daydream about traveling to distant lands to help ...