San Francisco, CA - Calling into question the "time-honored" tradition of using third and fourth heart sounds to identify cardiac abnormalities, a new study indicates that the overall diagnostic ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

We may soon be able to diagnose cardiac problems at home using ordinary smartphones to record the sounds of our heart beating. An app that lets people record their heart sounds has been found to make ...