From analogue to AI: This Bengaluru startup is reinventing a 200-year-old medical device for the 21st centuryAs the world upgrades with technology, including AI and ML, there is no reason why the stethoscope, invented in 1816, should be left behind...
23 Sep, 2025, 11.10 AM IST
AI, the doctor’s new stethoscopeAI is revolutionising India’s healthcare by easing doctor workloads, enhancing diagnostics, and streamlining care. Major hospital chains an...
24 Jun, 2025, 01.51 PM IST
Did Donald Trump’s pick for Surgeon General Janette Nesheiwat kill her own dad? Here's the real storyIn a recent development it has been known that US President- elect Donald Trump has selected a pretty famous doctor from the country for th...
09 Dec, 2024, 08.04 PM IST
As high-tech era tips the scale in favour of newer devices, stethoscope's fate hangs in balanceThe revered art of “auscultation”— the act of detecting maladies from listening to sounds from the heart, lungs or other organs—might actua...
05 May, 2024, 11.45 AM IST
Commerce ministry authorises EPCMD to issue registration-cum-membership certificates for exportersThe Commerce Ministry has authorized the newly-established Export Promotion Council for Medical Devices (EPCMD) to issue registration-cum-m...
30 Jun, 2023, 01.01 PM IST
Drones for sanitising, robots in isolation wards, special stethoscope--innovations to fight coronaWhile over 20 technical and scientific institutions are working on developing a vaccine for coronavirus, prominent IITs have already set up...
12 Apr, 2020, 01.10 PM IST
Amitabh Bachchan shares health update, says doctors want him to take time off from workOn this day 50 years ago, Big B made his debut in 'Saat Hindustaani'.
07 Nov, 2019, 04.31 PM IST
Tendulkar enjoys retirement, wife Anjali goes back to studyingThe Master Blaster's wife had put her career on hold to be able to manage the family.
07 Feb, 2019, 12.55 PM IST
Pharma firms lure doctors with gold coins to push its vaccinesWhile the flyer doesn't mention the name of any pharmaceutical company , a doctor said it was found only at the booth of one pharmaceutical...
21 Jan, 2017, 02.36 PM IST
Stethoscopes still close to our heartsPeriodic surveys among patients have also shown that stethoscopes remain close to their hearts as the most trusted medical implement.
05 Jan, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Pen mightier than stethoscope?Both these books came after Siddartha Mukherjee's much-acclaimed The Emperor of All Maladies about cancer which won the Pulitzer Prize for ...
12 Oct, 2014, 01.51 PM IST
- Certain stereotypes are necessary to instill confidence in cyber consultancies
A survey conducted recently on e-consultation sites found that patients thought doctors with the ubiquitous stethoscope looped around their...
14 Aug, 2012, 06.49 AM IST
- Ultrasound is Stethoscope of future: Thomas Gentile
Behemoth GE’s global head of medical technology Thomas Gentile speaks of the opportunities for healthcare systems & technologies.
12 Apr, 2012, 03.01 AM IST
- Hands-on diagnosis
The humble stethoscope has become more of a ceremonial badge of office than a serious tool of the trade.
16 Oct, 2010, 05.34 AM IST
- iPhone app may replace stethoscope!
The iPhone could soon replace the doctors' best friend, the traditional stethoscope, thanks to a free application created by a University C...
01 Sep, 2010, 03.29 AM IST
- iPhone app to replace the stethoscope?
The iPhone could soon replace the traditional stethoscope, thanks to a free application created by a University College London researcher
31 Aug, 2010, 02.36 PM IST
- iPods help doctors hear hearts: study
Listening at least 400 times to different heart sounds on an iPod is an effective way to improve a doctor's ability to detect a problem, a ...
26 Mar, 2007, 09.00 AM IST