If you’ve ever had a medical team investigating cardiac issues, you’ve probably had a bunch of electrodes stuck all over your chest and been hooked up to an electrocardiogram. This is the gold ...

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the significance of both telemedicine and measuring physiological signals as peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) at home. Aiming to increase the ...

Abstract: The narrow range of blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) measurement overlooks severe hypoxemia patients and some mild hypoxemia patients, preventing them from receiving accurate and timely ...

Following the March 2026 update for Google Pixel Watch devices, a number of users are reporting that their SpO2 (blood oxygen) and skin temperature readings have vanished from the Fitbit app. The ...

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.

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.

ORLANDO, Fla. – On Monday, Orlando city commissioners voted to move ahead with the construction of a permanent memorial to the 49 victims of the 2016 Pulse shooting. The vote, along with the recent ...

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

According to recent reports, Google’s upcoming Pixel Watch 4 is apparently set to include improvements to blood oxygen tracking, offer some form of satellite communications in emergencies, and support ...