Fitbits and Nike FuelBands are great in that they have opened up a huge market for wearable self-tracking devices, but in medicine, taking that concept a step further is what’s really going to save ...

Some earphones track heart rate and oxygen levels using Photoplethysmography and Pulse Oximetry, integrating wellness ...

Patients suffering from chronic cardiopulmonary diseases could soon have a solution to help them accurately monitor their health and warn doctors at the first sign of trouble. By simply carrying their ...

Proof-of-principle study: Researchers have demonstrated that smartphones are capable of detecting blood-oxygen saturation levels down to 70%. Subjects place their finger over the camera and flash of a ...

The blood oxygen sensor featured in Apple Watch Series 6 and 7 is “not intended for medical use,” Apple says. That seems odd, considering that low blood oxygen is a serious medical condition. If the ...

Two easily measurable signs of health - respiration rate and blood-oxygen saturation - are distinctly predictive of higher mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a study ...

Smartwatches can measure everything from heart rate to sleep quality, but one health metric has become particularly relevant over the past two years: blood oxygen saturation. Two of the world's ...

To determine oxygen saturation profile over 6 h monitoring period in healthy late-preterm and term neonates during the first 48 h of age, and to assess the impact of gestational age, birth weight and ...

"We have independent measurements of the mother's heart rate and her oxygen saturation (as well as other possible cues such as fetal heart rate, maternal respiration rate/motions via conventional ...