When Dr. Tarek Loubani travelled to Gaza to work as an ER physician, he found that stethoscopes were in short supply. Sometime later, he noticed that a toy stethoscope worked surprisingly well. This ...

A team of researchers have developed an open-source, clinically validated template for a 3-D printed stethoscope for use in areas of the world with limited access to medical supplies -- places where a ...

A Palestinian-Canadian doctor has created a low-cost stethoscope using a 3-D printer, the first in a series of inventions he hopes will help alleviate medical supply shortages caused by an eight-year ...

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 started 3D ...

A Palestinian-Canadian doctor has created a low-cost stethoscope using a 3D printer, the first in a series of inventions he hopes will help alleviate medical supply shortages caused by the blockade on ...

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.

Loubani spent time working as an physician in hospitals in Gaza during wartime when medical supplies were often scarce. (Representative image) Physicians in remote parts of the world can now 3D print ...

A GP and mother of two lost the plot after her 5-year-old daughter Olivier unwrapped a plastic doctors set on Christmas day. ‘It was a gift from my aunty,’ explains Olivier, ‘At first, mummy thought ...