An SpO₂ reading of 94% is slightly below the usual range for a healthy adult at sea level. A pulmonologist explains what can ...

A Seattle federal judge kept Medicaid for more than 800 Washington immigrants on SSI, but about 10,000 refugees, asylees, and others lost Apple Health on Oct. 1. Alabama's nearly $55 million Rural ...

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee met Friday to figure out ways to make pulse oximeters more accurate when doing readings on darker skin both in hospitals and at home, after research ...

As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Owais Durrani sees this issue regularly first-hand: When he clamps a pulse oximeter onto a patient’s fingertip to measure their blood oxygen levels, the small ...

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 ...

Fingertip monitors known as pulse oximeters that can be used at home to detect low blood oxygen levels (hypoxaemia) give higher readings for patients with darker than lighter skin tones, finds the ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) recently found that a device used to measure oxygen levels might be overestimating those levels in children of different races, which could ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The clip-on devices that use light to measure oxygen levels in the blood are getting a closer look from U.S. regulators after recent studies suggest they don't work as well for ...