Amazfit Helio Ring was introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024 in Las Vegas. The company has confirmed that the Amazfit Helio Ring will be available for purchase later this year. It ...

Smartphones are already capable of some neat health-centric tricks. From step counting and sleep tracking to measuring pulse and respiration rate, the phone in your pocket is quite a powerful-health ...

At its “Made by Google” event on October 6, Google revealed the latest Pixel collection, which includes the new Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro phones, a Pixel Tablet, and the company’s first smartwatch, the ...

While earlier fitness trackers could only serve the purpose of keeping count of the steps taken by the user, the latest ones can do much more including measuring the oxygen level in your blood.

Tucked away in some Garmin watches is a sensor that enables continuous blood oxygen monitoring, a feature the company refers to as ‘Pulse Ox’. You may have seen the feature appear in menus or in ...

Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, has now filed a new patent for a forthcoming technology that can identify respiratory infections by measuring blood oxygen or Sp02 levels. Based on blood oxygen levels, ...

A further drop in SpO2 below this threshold is defined as hypobaric hypoxia - or low blood oxygen level at higher altitude. Alcohol relaxes blood vessel walls, increasing the heart rate during sleep, ...

Vital signs, those fluorescent green numbers that beep, ding, and dash across black screens on the monitors in hospital rooms, have become a new source of angst during the coronavirus pandemic. One of ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A major UK study shows that commonly used home pulse oximeters can overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin, increasing the risk of undetected hypoxemia and raising ...