Respiratory problems are one of the most common symptoms for the coronavirus. Some people have wondered if using a pulse oximeter to monitor oxygen levels could help detect COVID-19 early on. The ...

DETROIT – The most common life-threatening complications from the coronavirus (COVID-19) are related to the lungs, and since all the oxygen in your body comes from the lungs, should everyone have a ...

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 – ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published new draft guidelines aimed at improving the accuracy and performance of pulse oximeters by considering the range of skin tones. The guidance, Pulse ...

A portable device used to detect blood oxygen levels revolutionized the medical field 50 years ago and is now receiving essential updates Efforts to improve the accuracy of pulse oximetry readings for ...

About a week after the FDA convened its latest meeting to discuss strategies for reducing racial biases in widely available pulse oximetry technology, Masimo has released new study data suggesting ...

(CNN) — The longstanding problem of pulse oximeters providing less-accurate readings for people with dark skin tones got another look Friday from a panel of experts for the US Food and Drug ...

On November 1, 2023, a contingent of 25 US state attorneys general wrote to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to encourage the agency “to act with urgency to address the ...