Later, he noticed that a toy stethoscope worked quite well. This prompted him and a team from Western University to design a plastic stethoscope that can be made anywhere, using a 3D printer.

The stethoscope — compared to 3M’s Littman stethoscopes in a validation study — became the inaugural device of the Glia Project, a group founded by Loubani in 2016 that 3D prints open-source ...

She handed him her toy stethoscope, which is one of the plastic, isolation stethoscopes from my hospital. “Let Bampa eat first,” I said. “No, let me examine him first,” my father said, ...

I grew up in the United States with an all-American Fisher Price doctor’s set, complete with toy blood pressure cuff and plastic stethoscope. But I feel like a British doctor in disguise as I ...