The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling for stricter testing standards for pulse oximeters—devices commonly used to measure blood oxygen levels—under a new federal proposal released Monday.

Pulse oximeters work by sending light beams through someone’s finger to estimate the oxygen saturation of their blood and their pulse rate. Ongoing research has found that if these devices are not ...

Pulse oximeters routinely overestimated levels of oxygen in the blood in darker-skinned Covid patients, leading to delays in treatment and hospital readmissions, according to a research article ...

Check out this ultra-thin electronic skin that can monitor your body's oxygen levels. It was developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan. It displays numbers and letters to tell you ...

A new sensor could soon allow hospital patients' blood oxygen levels to be checked via their breath. The technology is claimed to be more reliable and less painful than existing traditional methods.

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Medical device makers and scientists are working on new technologies to improve widely-used devices that assess potential heart and respiratory problems given mounting evidence that ...