At a CVS store in a racially diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn Center, the only devices available to shoppers to measure their ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a long-awaited plan aimed at improving how pulse oximeters work on people ...

Federal health officials are proposing changes to make sure medical devices that measure oxygen levels are working for ...

Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones, and now ...

Pulse oximeters help doctors evaluate a person's pulse rate and the oxygen saturation of your blood. The FDA is proposing ...

Manufacturers increasingly but still infrequently follow Food and Drug Administration guidance that recommends testing pulse oximeters on participants with a range of skin pigmentations, according to ...

director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement. The FDA first warned about problems with pulse oximeter accuracy in 2021. CDRH had listed draft guidance on ...

The FDA's draft recommendations for pulse oximeters aims to include clinical studies involving at least 150 participants with ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released draft guidelines on Jan. 6 proposing that manufacturers conduct larger, more ...

The Ringconn app also graphs heart rate, which tracks very closely with the results from my Google Watch. It reports on its ...

A summary of recent health news includes Louisiana's first bird flu death, WuXi Biologics' sale of an Irish facility to Merck ...

Federal health officials are proposing changes to make sure medical devices that measure oxygen levels are working for patients of color ...