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.

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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 ...

Pulse oximeters use light to measure the amount of oxygen in the blood (SpO2). For most people, a normal pulse oximeter reading is between 95% and 100%, with readings below 90-92% generally considered ...

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.

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today FDA clearance of MightySat ® Medical, making it the first and only FDA-cleared medical fingertip pulse oximeter available ...

Blood oxygen measurements taken with pulse oximeters in hospitals tend to be lower than they really are, according to the Equiox study, which was designed to assess the technology’s measurement ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Real-world study looked at relationship between skin pigmentation and pulse oximeter bias in critically ill ...

The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion programs threaten to derail efforts to fix racial disparities associated with pulse oximeters — just as the federal government was ...

The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Two years ago, ...

On November 1, 2023, a contingent of 25 US state attorneys general wrote to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to encourage the agency “to act with urgency to address the ...