Blood oxygen monitors miss concerning COVID-19 symptoms more often in patients of color. This delayed treatment for Asian, Black, and Hispanic patients ...

Gottlieb is asking manufacturers to improve pulse oximeters by possibly adding a mechanism to the device that measures skin color.A healthy blood oxygen level is about 98% or above. BOSTON — ...

Vaccination has no effect on the color of blood, which is primarily determined by the level of oxygen in blood cells. Make Yahoo Your Homepage. Discover something new every day from News, ...

Severe iron deficiency can lead to pica, a condition where you want to eat things with no nutritional value. Both Peterson ...

A recent study from the University of North Carolina and Washington University experimentally confirms that skin pigmentation ...

FILE - A health worker uses a pulse oximeter to check the oxygen saturation level of another after administering COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Gauhati, India, Jan. 21, 2021.

Apple is facing a federal class-action lawsuit that claims the blood oxygen reader in the Apple Watch yields inaccurate results for people of color. The suit, filed Saturday on behalf of plaintiff ...

The app continuously analyzed how much of the light was absorbed by the blood, in the green, red and blue color channels. The amount that was absorbed varied with the amount of oxygen in their blood.

The arrival of blood oxygen sensing follows a series of ups and downs for the Oura Ring. When the smart ring debuted last fall, Oura revealed that unlocking certain features would require ...

Blood oxygen sensing was one of the marquee features touted alongside the Oura Ring Gen 3 last fall. Now, the company says it’s finally rolling out the feature with two new metrics, Average ...

WASHINGTON – Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that their products work for patients of color, under a new federal ...