Apple has asked a U.S. federal appeals court to overturn an import ban on Apple Watch models with blood oxygen monitoring ...

At a CVS store in a racially diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn Center, the only devices available to shoppers to measure their blood-oxygen levels are virtually unregulated fingertip oximeters that ...

S AN FRANCISCO — The discovery that fingertip oxygen-measuring devices might contribute to health disparities because they appear to work less well on patients with darker skin has roiled the ...

For years, studies have found racial bias in common oxygen-measuring devices called pulse oximeters, as well as alarming dangers from inaccurate blood oxygen measurements in dark-skinned patients.

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 ...

This new approach to measuring blood oxygen levels uses two distinct features: the smartphone camera and a deep learning algorithm to process the results. ... Researchers hope their device could lead ...

A major flaw has been discovered in a common medical device used to measure patients’ blood oxygen levels painlessly and quickly, according to a new study. Skip to content NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 at 7 ...

The smartphone used in the study was able to detect a blood oxygen level as low as 70 percent, which is the lowest value that pulse oximeters should be able to measure according to the U.S. Food ...

These devices measure blood oxygen levels and can help identify when patients are dangerously ill. But research shows they can deliver misleading results for people with darker skin.

You measure blood oxygen, also called oxygen saturation, with a pulse oximeter. It's a small device that clips to your finger (or another part of your body) ...