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

Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones, and now ...

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

The agency is proposing that device manufacturers improve their testing to including larger, more diverse sample sizes.

New draft guidelines would increase the number of people with darker skin who should be included in clinical trials of the ...

At a CVS store in a racially diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn Center, the only devices available to shoppers to measure their ...

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance would require manufacturers of pulse oximeters to gather far more ...

Pulse oximeters help doctors evaluate a person's pulse rate and the oxygen saturation of your blood. The FDA is proposing ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s recommendations apply to pulse oximeters, which are clip-on devices used in hospitals and ...

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

The U.S. health regulator on Monday proposed new guidelines for widely-used blood oxygen monitoring devices to improve their ...

Federal health officials are proposing changes to make sure medical devices that measure oxygen levels are working for patients of color ...