The new Apple Watch Series 6 has added some health technology that is immensely timely as we navigate our world’s new normal. More of us than ever are taking an interest in not just our overall health ...

The blood oxygen sensor featured in Apple Watch Series 6 and 7 is “not intended for medical use,” Apple says. That seems odd, considering that low blood oxygen is a serious medical condition. If the ...

Your phone camera might have another useful feature beyond taking selfies. Engineers at UC San Diego and the University of Washington published a proof-of-concept study that showed a smartphone was ...

Smartwatches can measure everything from heart rate to sleep quality, but one health metric has become particularly relevant over the past two years: blood oxygen saturation. Two of the world's ...

Just got the Apple Watch Series 6 and want to check your "wellness" with the new blood oxygen sensor? Here's how to do it. The Apple Watch Series 6 has a blood oxygen monitor for measuring oxygen ...

Blood oxygen saturation is important to normal healthy functions in the, particularly for lung functions. Blood oxygen levels received renewed attention as an essential vital sign during the COVID-19 ...

Measuring blood oxygen levels on the Apple Watch has been a staple of its health monitoring experience since it arrived. Yet, an ongoing patent dispute in the US has complicated matters over the last ...

Apple started its big reveal of the Series 6 Watch with a close up on its newest sensor: a pulse oximeter, which measures blood oxygen levels. Even though the company did not mention the coronavirus ...

VO2 max testing requires a mask to measure oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output to determine your cardiovascular fitness. When you think about how fit you are, you might think about how far you can ...

Pulse oximeters are devices that clip onto fingertips to measure how much oxygen is flowing through blood. Courtesy of Jenny Vallimont A study of more than 48,000 blood oxygen measurements shows that ...