A 62-year-old man with a history of dilated cardiomyopathy and a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 30% presents to the emergency department with complaints of shortness of breath and weight ...

Lung sounds: Wheezing and crackling noises might be more than just a sign of sickness in lung disease, reveals a new study. Wheezing and crackling in the lungs could be the sounds of progressing lung ...

A team of students at Johns Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering has designed a stethoscope for NASA that delivers accurate heart and body sounds to medics trying to assess astronauts' health on ...

Make sure that the listening area is quiet, and importantly, do not listen through the patient's clothing. Warm your stethoscope either by carrying it in your pants pocket or by vigorously rubbing it.

A team of students at Johns Hopkins University has designed a stethoscope that delivers accurate heart and body sounds to medics who are trying to assess astronauts' health on long missions in noisy ...

The study is a continuation of a hypothesis that Unto K. Laine, Professor Emeritus, published three years ago on the origin of the sounds heard during the displays of the Northern Lights. His theory ...

ANN ARBOR--Doctors know they're the sounds of lung problems, but it turns out they might be more than symptoms--crackling and wheezing could be the sounds of a disease progressing, a University of ...