Rochester, MN, February 27, 2014 – Although healthcare workers' hands are the main source of bacterial transmission in hospitals, physicians' stethoscopes appear to play a role. To explore this ...

Five years after starting a private practice, Colorado-based obesity medicine specialist Carolynn Francavilla, MD, was at risk of going under. The pandemic hit, and her patients couldn’t come to the ...

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 ...

Clinicians participating in a quality improvement pilot project failed to sanitize stethoscopes between patient interactions, even after educational interventions, according to a study published in ...

GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A physician's stethoscope is as full of germs as a physician's hands, and U.S. researchers suggest it should be cleaned after use on each patient. Lead ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The stethoscope is considered to be the first diagnostic tool introduced into modern medicine. From the Greek ...

Study shows stethoscopes have more bacteria than doctors%27 palms Researchers encourage doctors to treat stethoscope as extension of their hands and sanitize after seeing each patient The study found ...

Is high-tech imaging replacing rubber tubing and ear buds? Doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient’s chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Thirty-five-year-old Paris physician Rene ...

Although healthcare workers' hands are the main source of bacterial transmission in hospitals, physicians' stethoscopes appear to play a role. To explore this question, investigators assessed the ...