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No one’s quite sure how to fix pulse oximeters. The FDA asked this lab to find answers

16.12.2022

SAN FRANCISCO — The discovery that fingertip oxygen-measuring devices might contribute to health disparities because they appear to work less well on patients with darker skin has roiled the world …

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First Opinion

Opinion: To protect the medical supply chain, ‘made in America’ will be key

14.12.2022

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed a serious flaw in the United States’ medical supply chain: an overreliance on imported supplies. Reinvigorating a domestic supply chain is an important step toward protecting …

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Health / Health Tech

Before making unbiased pulse oximeters, researchers need a better way to measure skin tone

05.12.2022

There’s a growing consensus among physicians and government regulators that pulse oximeters measure oxygen levels less accurately in patients with darker skin and need to be fixed. There’s another problem, …

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Health Tech

‘A constant information lag’: The troubled recall of Philips CPAP machines underscores flaws in device oversight

01.12.2022

The ongoing recall of millions of breathing devices made by Philips has been botched and belabored at nearly every turn: It took more than a decade after users first reported …

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First Opinion / Health

Opinion: Real-time data are needed to monitor health after disasters

08.11.2022

Weather-related disasters like the millions of Floridians left without power by Hurricane Ian or the record monsoon rains that have claimed 1,500 lives in Pakistan have increased five-fold in the …

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Health

FDA panel asks for improvements in pulse oximeters

02.11.2022

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel suggested Tuesday that the agency improve how it regulates pulse oximeters, calling for clearer labeling and more rigorous testing of the devices. The widely …

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Health

Watch: How pulse oximeters work, and why they sometimes do not

01.11.2022

Pulse oximeters, which measure oxygen levels in blood, are one of the most widely used medical tools. They are affordable, portable, and easy to use, but they have a major …

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Coronavirus / Health

Pulse oximeters and their inaccuracies will get FDA scrutiny today. What took so long?

01.11.2022

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday will take up the issue of whether pulse oximeters, the ubiquitous medical devices that became a mainstay for assessing patient oxygen levels …

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‘A poster child’ for diversity in science: Black engineers work to fix long-ignored bias in oxygen readings

19.08.2022

Like many people who are Black, Kimani Toussaint was concerned when he learned that the pulse oximeters relied on so heavily by physicians to treat and monitor Covid-19 patients didn’t …

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