Six states will require medical proof for Medicaid work exemptions in January, skipping a federal grace year. Who is affected and what to gather. MedPAC's chair defended its $76 billion Medicare ...

Covid-19 made pulse oximeters an even more important tool for measuring the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream than they had been before. Widely used in hospitals and health systems, these small ...

Often when Dr. Thomas Valley sees a new patient in the intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, he clamps a pulse oximeter on their finger – one of the many devices he uses to gauge ...

Confused by your pulse oximeter readings? This video breaks down what your blood oxygen levels truly indicate about your health. Learn to interpret the numbers, understand normal ranges, and discover ...

As a triple threat of respiratory illnesses – flu, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV – sweeps the United States, emergency departments are using one small tool more than usual to ...

Early in the pandemic, scores of Americans bought pulse oximeters to help determine how sick they were while infected with COVID-19, but new research finds the devices often miss dangerously low blood ...

A new study is investigating whether ear oxygen monitoring could be more precise than fingertip tests.

(CNN)-- Often when Dr. Thomas Valley sees a new patient in the intensive care unit at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, he clamps a pulse oximeter on their finger -- one of the many devices he uses to ...