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

Manufacturers increasingly but still infrequently follow FDA guidance that recommends testing pulse oximeters on participants ...

The FDA announced its draft guidance on recommendations for studies assessing pulse oximeters to ensure the devices perform ...

Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings ... to label them in a way to encourage consumers to use them.’ ” Iwashyna added that the new guidance should ...

Work by device manufacturers to improve the performance of pulse oximeters on people with darker ... Even though there was an increase in use of terms involving skin tone, race, and ethnicity ...

She has multiple chronic health problems, including heart failure, and uses an oxygen tank at home. But her request for supplemental oxygen while hospitalized was denied, Starr said, because readings ...