Analysis - Can you hold your breath until you're almost bursting to take another breath in? This urgent feeling that you need to get more air is called "air hunger".

Family shares frustration with Children's Hospital triage process after daughter's condition worsened in ER wait room. Calls ...

Researchers found a 3.2% difference in oxygen saturation readings between manufacturers at the lower 70% saturation range. A significant difference in arterial oxygen saturation (sO 2) levels was ...

The Phillies have reported for spring training in Clearwater, Florida, where a mobile chamber for players to get hyperbaric oxygen therapy is waiting in the team clubhouse. Last year, the Phillies ...

A sweeping review shows that while calorie intake and BMI often appear normal in people with alcohol use disorder, poor diet quality, hidden deficiencies, and flawed assessment tools may be ...

For patients with darker skin tone, SpO 2 readings were 0.6 to 1.5 percentage points higher on average than for patients with lighter skin tone. HealthDay News — Patients with darker skin tones have ...

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.

Pulse oximeters use light to measure the amount of oxygen in the blood (SpO2). For most people, a normal pulse oximeter reading is between 95% and 100%, with readings below 90-92% generally considered ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Rather than provide clarity on how to reduce racial bias in pulse ...

Across industries, pricing strategies are quietly shifting. What was once a predictable rhythm of annual increases is now giving way to continuous, incremental adjustments—and, in some cases, fully ...