Apple has been embroiled in a six-year legal battle over one of its Apple Watch health apps. The end may finally be in sight, ...

An off-duty police officer calls 911 to report his wife unconscious. As suspicions mount that he may be to blame for her death, an unexpected twist changes everything.

1 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS), University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon. 2 Douala General Hospital, Douala, Cameroon. 3 Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FMSP), ...

A US appeals court has found in favor of Masimo in its fight against Apple over pulse oximetry patents, but in the court that matters, a ruling makes it clear that there won't be another ban on the ...

Researchers found a 3.2% difference in oxygen saturation readings between manufacturers at the lower 70% saturation range. A significant difference in arterial oxygen saturation (sO 2) levels was ...

Tiffany Kinyua is a psychology major with a minor in biology and she is a 2025-26 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Owlet, Inc. (“Owlet” or the “Company”) (NYSE: OWLT), the pioneer of smart infant monitoring, today announced a new strategic partnership with PromptCare, a leading ...

If you’ve ever hesitated while filling out your “projected finish time” for a race registration, you’re not alone. Sure, you could go off of your most recent race of the same distance—but if you’ve ...

A major UK study shows that commonly used home pulse oximeters can overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin, increasing the risk of undetected hypoxemia and raising urgent questions about ...

Fingertip monitors known as pulse oximeters that can be used at home to detect low blood oxygen levels (hypoxaemia) give higher readings for patients with darker than lighter skin tones, finds the ...

In the EXAKT study from the U.K., the home-use pulse oximeters assessed all gave higher oxygen saturation (SpO2) readings for patients with darker skin tones than for patients with lighter skin tones.