In part, because she is the only "doctor" in town. Brooks sees 8,500 patients a year from around the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi has the highest rate of infant mortality and obesity in the nation.

In the coming years, new policies may help turn the ebbing tide of stethoscope skills in practicing physicians and those in training. Starting in 2000, internal medicine doctors who renew their ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - They're a symbol of healing, but a new study finds one of the tools doctors use can be a magnet for bacteria. The diaphragm of a stethoscope — the round piece placed against a ...

From stethoscopes to chocolates, doctors reveal the essentials they carry daily. On National Doctors' Day 2025, we explore what's inside a modern doctor's bag.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern-day stethoscopes bear little resemblance to the first stethoscope, invented in the early 1800s by Frenchman Rene Laennec, but they work essentially the same way.

The stethoscope is a staple of modern medicine; but in parts of the developing world, off-the-shelf models are prohibitively expensive. That’s why a team of doctors and hackers in Gaza has ...

Waheed Arian fled the war in Afghanistan when he was a teenager. Now an emergency room doctor in Britain, he has made it his mission to bring hope and healing to others. By Megan Specia CHESTER ...