The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in “super handy” during the medical crisis. (AP produced by Javier Arciga)

The images in front of me on this Zoom call don't make much sense: There's a pie slice of noisy gray, punctuated by long, dark shadows that slide around laterally. And at the top sits a series of immobile, tightly packed layers. It's all gibberish to a ...

During a night shift when she was a resident at Yale New Haven Hospital, Cristiana Baloescu was taking care of a patient with a complex presentation of symptoms. The patient was experiencing some back and leg pain.

When Butterfly Network first began rolling out its handheld ultrasound scanners in 2018, much of the focus was on providing tools to parts of Africa and Latin America, where access to large and more traditional ultrasound machines was far more restricted.

When Butterfly Network first began rolling out its handheld ultrasound scanners in 2018, much of the focus was on providing tools to parts of Africa and Latin America, where access to large and more traditional ultrasound machines was far more restricted.