When The View's Joy Behar and Michelle Collins mocked Miss Colorado 2015's entry in the talent section of this year's Miss America pageant, they had no idea they would touch off a firestorm.

Standardized cleaning method decreases contamination better than practitioner-preferred methods. Stethoscopes are a symbol of healthcare. But a new study in the journal Infection Control & Hospital ...

Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson made it to the top five of the elite pageant and scholarship competition this year. For the talent portion of the competition, she delivered a monologue explaining why ...

The stethoscope is one of the most important and perhaps the most recognizable of all tools used by health care professionals. But new research finds they are often crawling with bacteria, including ...

An Aurora man strangled his former girlfriend, a DuPage County jail nurse, with her scarf and then used her stethoscope to make sure she was dead, a prosecutor said Monday at a bond hearing. Jose ...

A new study suggests stethoscopes need to be cleaned more diligently. The stethoscope has long been an iconic symbol of health care used for listening to the heart, intestines, lungs and blood flow.