A pulse oximeter is a device that clips on your finger, toe, or earlobe to measure blood oxygen saturation. Here's how it works and how to read it.

Race-neutral pulmonary function testing, now recommended by ATS and implemented at Boston Medical Center, has had a long road to acceptance.

Researchers believe they have developed the first dedicated blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known ...

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxford Biodynamics have developed a high accuracy blood test to diagnose ...

Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common comorbidity in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and may exacerbate arrhythmic ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford are developing a new breathing test that could detect asthma and COPD earlier and more accurately.

Pulmonary fibrosis is a lung disease where the air sacs and tissue in the lungs get stiff and scarred. This makes it harder to breathe and perform everyday activities. The ...

New safety test results show how some popular electric vehicles performed in collisions and avoiding pedestrians. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently examined how seven EV's performed.

OBJECTIVE: In addition to oxygen support, bronchodilator therapy constitutes the most essential treatment step in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Our study aimed to compare the ...