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This means that low blood oxygen levels may be missed in patients with darker skin tones, potentially delaying care, while patients with lighter skin tones may get unnecessary treatment. Pulse ...

With challenges around usability, trust and regulation addressed, RTBF can play a meaningful role in shifting healthcare from episodic response toward prevention.

Smartphones are already capable of some neat health-centric tricks. From step counting and sleep tracking to measuring pulse and respiration rate, the phone in your pocket is quite a powerful-health ...

Tucked away in some Garmin watches is a sensor that enables continuous blood oxygen monitoring, a feature the company refers to as ‘Pulse Ox’. You may have seen the feature appear in menus or in ...

Fitbit has dropped a patent for a medical grade smart ring, in what could be a dramatic new form factor for the Google-owned company. A filing at the US Patent and Trademark Office (spotted by ...

Smartwatches can measure everything from heart rate to sleep quality, but one health metric has become particularly relevant over the past two years: blood oxygen saturation. Two of the world's ...