Medical device design consultancy TTP has released a new e-book exploring the engineering realities behind developing ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. With five years of experience as a writer ...

A prenatal ultrasound test uses high-frequency sound waves, inaudible to the human ear, that are transmitted through the abdomen via a device called a transducer to look at the inside of the abdomen.

The scan was supposed to be a routine classroom demo. Instead, it flagged a medical crisis that the patient-to-be never saw coming. Four weeks into her first year at Hofstra/Northwell's medical school ...

The ultrasound scanner has a probe that gives off sound waves. The probe looks a bit like a microphone. The sound waves bounce off the organs inside your body, and the probe picks them up. The probe ...