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 ...

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

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 ...

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance would require manufacturers of pulse oximeters to gather far more ...

Manufacturers increasingly but still infrequently follow Food and Drug Administration guidance that recommends testing pulse oximeters on participants with a range of skin pigmentations, according to ...

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

Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that their ...

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 ...