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As respiratory diseases rise, EPA tightens air quality standards

06.01.2023

The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Friday more aggressive air quality standards for particulate matter, pollutants small enough to be inhaled and cause respiratory illness and other disease. The agency’s …

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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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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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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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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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First Opinion

Opinion: Dying of a disease I never knew existed

05.09.2022

By this time next year, if the medical forecasts are correct, I will probably be dead, another casualty of a fatal illness that most people have never heard of: idiopathic …

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Coronavirus / Health

Public health experts sketch a roadmap to get from the Covid pandemic to the ‘next normal’

07.03.2022

A new report released Monday charts a path for the transition out of the Covid-19 pandemic, one that outlines both how the country can deal with the challenge of endemic …

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