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

(CNN) — Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones, and now the US Food and Drug Administration is proposing guidance to help ...

Among the wave of guidance documents issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) in the first week of 2025 were ...

Researchers from UCSF are leading an effort to find out which pulse oximeters work equally well on all skin colors. NBC News' Erika Edwards reports.Jan. 19, 2025 ...

A fingertip pulse oximeter distributed by Concord Health Supply, Inc., a family-owned business in Skokie, is earning praise as the best in class for home use by Wirecutter, The New York Times' popular ...

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

Oxygen therapy has gained significant traction globally, emerging as a vital medical intervention for a variety of ...

Historically, companies haven’t been required to include a significant number of dark-skinned people in studies of pulse oximeters. “Quite frankly, how we’ve measured it hasn’t been ...

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But her request for supplemental oxygen while hospitalized was denied, Starr said, because readings from a pulse oximeter on her finger falsely indicated that she was getting plenty of air on her own.