Pulse oximeters send light beams through your finger to evaluate your pulse rate and the oxygen saturation of your blood. Pulse oximeters, a device used to measure oxygen in the blood, could get a ...

A Grade 11 student won Canada's top teen innovation award in science by correcting a 35-year-old flaw in pulse oximeters that ...

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Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Nellcor pulse oximetry system with the Nell-EQ intelligent ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. In 2022, Noha Aboelata noticed something troubling. The founding CEO ...

In a suit filed against CVS, Walgreens, GE Healthcare and many other medical technology companies and sellers of pulse oximeters – devices that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood – ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- As we continue to navigate the tripledemic of COVID-19, RSV, and the flu, local health leaders are raising concerns over a key medical device that often determines if a sick ...

Attorneys general in Wisconsin and other states are urging the federal Food and Drug Administration to address a flaw in devices used to measure a person's blood oxygen level that tend to give faulty ...

A pulse oximeter is worn by Brown University professor Kimani Toussaint. The devices have been shown in research to produce inaccurate results in dark-skinned people, and Toussaint's lab is developing ...

Pulse oximeter devices routinely overestimate blood oxygen levels in darker-skinned patients—a racial bias that can trigger downstream health harms for Black individuals, compounding well beyond any ...