Pneumonia-related infections kill almost 1 million children each year worldwide, and they are the leading cause of death for children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011, a team of Johns Hopkins ...

NEW YORK — Good news: More doctors could soon be using “smart” stethoscopes on patients. Eko Devices, a smart medical device startup, announced on Wednesday that its Eko Core product has been cleared ...

Good news: More doctors could soon be using "smart" stethoscopes on patients. Eko Devices, a smart medical device startup, announced on Wednesday that its Eko Core product has been cleared by the FDA.

When kidney stones can’t be dissolved using medication, the next step is usually a procedure known as shock wave lithotripsy. This involves focusing a series of high-intensity acoustic pulses onto the ...

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 ...

The Steth IO device turns an iPhone into a smart stethoscope, helping doctors detect and diagnose heart problems. (Steth IO Image via YouTube) The stethoscope is an enduring symbol of medicine, but ...

For all the advances in medical diagnostics made over the last two centuries of modern medicine, from the ability to peer deep inside the body with the help of superconducting magnets to harnessing ...

Screening with a "smart," artificial-intelligence (AI)-enhanced investigational digital stethoscope (Eko Duo) that provides phonocardiogram and electrocardiogram (ECG) readings doubled the detection ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Clare McGrane on Jul 30, 2018 at ...

Each year, pneumonia and other lower respiratory infections kill nearly 1 million children — more than malaria and HIV combined. Some of those deaths could be avoided if every child on Earth had ...

The stethoscope has long been a symbol of medicine, but now the centuries-old device has new competition, with the launch of a smartphone-based intelligent stethoscope invented by a Seattle teen ...