The common medical devices don’t work as well for Black patients. The FDA is now trying to do something about it.

The former TOWIE star, 38, shared a photo of Larose in a hospital bed and told how she had been there all night long with her.

LAUREN Goodger has rushed her three-year-old daughter Larose to hospital last night after she “struggled to breathe”. The ...

Individuals with darker skin tones may have difficulty using certain medical equipment according to recent studies.

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

Manufacturers increasingly but still infrequently follow FDA guidance that recommends testing pulse oximeters on participants ...

The Nonin TruO2 OTC photographed as it would be used at Nonin Medical Inc. in Plymouth in December 2024. (Ayrton Breckenridge/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

The Food and Drug Administration's recommendations apply to pulse oximeters, which are clip-on devices used in hospitals and medical clinics to ensure patients are getting enough oxygen. The FDA said ...

Pulse oximeters gauge the proportion of oxygen-carrying red blood cells in a patient's bloodstream by shining light of two wavelengths through the patient's finger and comparing the differential ...

By snapping a device onto a finger and then sending two wavelengths of light into the skin, the oximeter measures how much of the light is absorbed and estimates how much oxygen is flowing through ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published draft guidance aimed at improving the performance of pulse oximeters across all skin colours, following research suggesting the medical devices ...