A group of engineers and doctors at the University of Washington has just developed an app that might save parents a lot of money in co-pays for taking their little ones to the doctor for frequently ...

PITTSBURGH — Doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have been developing a smartphone app for more than a decade that uses artificial intelligence to identify features that are highly ...

Dr. Randall Bly uses a uses a phone app and a paper funnel to focus the sound, to check his daughter for an ear infection. AP WASHINGTON — Researchers have created a way for a smartphone to “hear” a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nappy rash? Trapped wind? Parents looking for answers could be helped by a new app that - developers say - can accurately diagnose ...

Smartphones can do it all — call you a taxi, give you directions, find you a date. But can those all-powerful phones play doctor, too? Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have ...

Researchers have created a way for a smartphone to "hear" a warning sign of ear infections — fluid buildup behind the eardrum. If it pans out, parents might one day check their tots' ears at home ...

Having an ear infection can be painful. And if you haven’t dealt with the discomfort of an ear infection since you were a ...

Researchers are developing a smartphone app that, with the help of a simple paper funnel, might help parents detect fluid buildup in a child's ear – one symptom of an ear infection. The app is still ...