New FDA rules to cut racial bias in some, but not all, devices to measure oxygen in the blood
At a CVS store in a racially diverse neighborhood in Brooklyn Center, the only devices available to shoppers to measure their ...
Pulse oximeters may misread oxygen levels in people of color. The FDA wants to change that
Federal health officials are proposing changes to make sure medical devices that measure oxygen levels are working for ...
FDA Pushes to Improve Blood Oxygen Monitor Accuracy Across Skin Tones
The FDA's draft recommendations for pulse oximeters aims to include clinical studies involving at least 150 participants with ...
FDA seeks to boost accuracy of blood-oxygen monitors across skin tones
The U.S. health regulator on Monday proposed new guidelines for widely-used blood oxygen monitoring devices to improve their ...
FDA Proposes Changes as Pulse Oximeters May Misread Oxygen Levels in People of Color
Makers of medical devices that quickly measure oxygen levels in the blood would have to gather extra data to show that their ...
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Diversity Reporting Improved in Pulse Oximetry Testing After FDA Guidance
These errors combine to produce failures in detecting life-threatening low blood oxygen levels among individuals ... Ferryman and her team researched the FDA's database to find unique device ...
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US FDA declines to approve injection form of J&J's lung cancer drug
Dec 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to approve an injectable version of Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ.N), opens new tab drug Rybrevant for a type of lung cancer, the ...
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FDA approves anti-obesity drug as first sleep apnea medication
OSA occurs when a patient’s airway is blocked while sleeping, preventing the person from breathing and causing a drop in blood-oxygen levels ... division of the FDA’s drug evaluation center ...
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Philip Morris USA sues FDA over new cigarette warning labels
a child with an oxygen mask and warnings of erectile dysfunction. The current images are toned down considerably from the FDA’s first attempt in 2012, which featured images of smoke coming out ...
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6 steps to prevent an oxygen tank explosion/regulator fire
The FDA video highlighted several EMS providers that had been injured in an oxygen tank explosion/fire and cited at least one death. Considering how many tens of thousands of times oxygen tanks ...
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Emergency Flu Signs in Children
This means the body isn’t getting enough oxygen, and organ damage and other serious consequences ... Use caution, though, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not recommend the use of ...