User-Friendly Smartphone Platform Sounds Out Possible Ear Infections in Children (5 of 5) (VIDEO)

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UW researchers have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and a smartphone's microphone and speaker. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 15, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Chan at University of Washington in Seattle, WA; and colleagues was titled, "Detecting middle ear fluid using smartphones."

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