Your pulse is like having a direct line to your heart’s control room, constantly broadcasting information about your cardiovascular health that most people never bother to decode. While everyone knows ...

Your pulse and blood pressure work together as vital indicators of heart health, though they measure different things. While blood pressure shows how forcefully blood pushes against artery walls, your ...

The pulse oximeter is currently one of the most essential medical devices. This health instrument can actually help you during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this photo illustration, a young woman ...

When recording your heartbeat, look out for skipped beats, extra beats, or long pauses between beats, that can feel like fluttering, racing or pounding in the chest. These are often signs of premature ...

The Food and Drug Administration should move more quickly to ensure pulse oximeters — the ubiquitous devices used to measure blood oxygen — work well in all patients, should better inform clinicians ...

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, Kimani Toussant’s wife, an epidemiologist, brought him an article about how pulse oximeters appeared to be less accurate in people with darker skin. The small ...

Starting January 18, Apple will sell the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 with pulse oximetry disabled in software. Here's how to tell if an Apple Watch has pulse oximetry or doesn't.

Google came late to the smartwatch game and had a rocky start with its first Pixel Watch in late 2022. However, the company more than redeemed itself with the Pixel Watch 2, a worthy successor that ...