The stethoscope may be the iconic medical tool that most doctors cannot do without, to diagnose and cure their patients' illnesses. Unfortunately, it may also be a cesspool of germs that could spread ...
ADDING MULTIMEDIA New Study: Before a Doctor Listens to Your Heart, Ask If the Stethoscope is Clean!
Medical researchers find 80 percent of stethoscopes are contaminated; Switch to antimicrobial copper alloys reduces bacteria levels by 91 percent LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--There are now two ...
Though doctors may disinfect their hands to prevent spreading illness, there may be another bacteria-ridden object they have on them that doesn't get the same cleaning treatment: their stethoscopes. A ...
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 ...
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