High environmental heat and physical exertion combine to limit oxygen delivery to the heart muscle, raising ischemic risks in ...

Clinicians may be missing critical signs of breathing discomfort or distress, especially in ventilated patients ...

The Whoop 5.0 delivers excellent battery life, accurate health tracking, and meaningful new insights, though its subscription pricing makes it a costly commitment. The Fitbit Air costs $99. Without a ...

"Vital signs are fine, but the patient feels unwell when I get them out of bed..." "The criteria are met, but for some reason, I'm afraid to mobilize them..." New therapists, are you struggling with ...

A few minutes before 11 PM on Friday night, White House physician Dr. Sean Barbarella’s memo on President Donald Trump’s physical exam was released by the White House. Trump paid a visit to Walter ...

A heart attack is a common but serious health condition that takes place when the flow of blood to the heart is severely reduced or blocked. This is primarily caused by the buildup of fat, cholesterol ...

Steffini Stalos, DO, is board-certified in pathology and lab medicine. She is currently Chief Medical Officer of Blood Associates, a lab consultancy firm. An overnight pulse oximetry test checks your ...

Jeffrey S. Lander, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist and the President and Governor of the American College of Cardiology, New Jersey chapter. To take a pulse oximetry reading, turn on the device, ...

This review synthesised existing evidence on racial disparities in pulse oximeter accuracy, quantified the degree of bias, evaluated clinical effects, highlighted implications for practice, and ...

Tiffany Kinyua is a psychology major with a minor in biology and she is a 2025-26 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

Treating the monitor, not just the patient, can help to guide your clinical decision-making process toward a more accurate and definitive differential diagnosis. We’ve all heard the saying “treat the ...