For all their education, medical practitioners sometimes forget that what’s old hat to them is new territory for their patients. [David Revoy] learned that when a recent visit to the veterinarian ...

Dr Tarek Loubani and associated have designed an open-source stethoscope. It is made of a bunch of parts that can be bought – like silicone tubing and a diaphragm cut from the cover of a particular ...

You’d think that with as many sick people as there are in the world, it wouldn’t be too difficult for a doctor in training to get practice. It’s easy to get experience treating common complaints like ...

When Dr Tarek Loubani worked as an emergency room physician in Gaza the one thing the struck him among in the shortage of medical supplies in the war-stricken region was the lack of stethoscopes.