Vital signs, those fluorescent green numbers that beep, ding, and dash across black screens on the monitors in hospital rooms, have become a new source of angst during the coronavirus pandemic. One of ...

For a healthy adult sitting at sea level, a pulse oximeter should read between 95 and 100 percent. That is the normal band clinicians use. Once the number slips below 90 percent, you have crossed the ...

A Northwestern and Buck Institute study of 28 women found that the ovary keeps changing for decades after menopause, with more inflammation in older tissue. Utah biologists dropped a weight on ...

A study led by biomedical scientist Erica Heinrich at the University of California, Riverside, highlights a critical gap in how clinicians detect and treat breathing distress (dyspnea), particularly ...