Heart murmurs are surprisingly common. Around 10 percent of adults and 40–50 percent of children have them, and Yale Medicine ...

You have to be able to describe a ‘normal’ heartbeat before you can appreciate anything abnormal ...

A normal heart beat has two sounds typically described as “lub-dub” which are caused by heart valves closing. But sometimes when listening to a patient’s heart with a stethoscope, a doctor ...

Doctors can fail to identify obvious heart murmurs because they've listened to normal and murmur heart sounds too little. But slapping the contrasting sounds onto mp3 players helps train docs quickly.

Heart murmurs are heart sounds that are detected when listening to the horse’s chest with a stethoscope. A normal heart beat will sound like lub–dub–lub–dub. The lub is the first heart sound and ...