A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee met Friday to figure out ways to make pulse oximeters more accurate when doing readings on darker skin both in hospitals and at home, after research ...

The FDA is convening a panel of experts to determine a better way to evaluate pulse oximeter readings so that they provide more accurate data for patients of color, the agency announced Feb. 2. Pulse ...

Scientists have long known that pulse oximeters are less accurate when used for people with dark skin tones – and now, a new report offers some insight into just how much more inaccurate these ...

The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure. She has ...

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 ...

Black people in the hospital are 31.9% more likely than White patients to have pulse oximeter readings that overestimate their oxygen levels by at least 4 percentage points, according to data ...