I just hit 20,000 steps!" my husband exclaims as he brags when his fitness tracker exceeds the oft-heard benchmark of 10,000 steps per day. Although I rarely get that many steps, I use my ...

This large prospective UK study compared five low-cost fingertip pulse oximeters with arterial blood gas measurements and ...

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"Although absolute differences in readings were small, they can result in substantially higher rates of false negatives and ...

I reassured him and sent him to get another blood specimen drawn without a tourniquet. Why? Because I suspected that the ...

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Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Monocytes are white blood cells that help fight infections and diseases in your body. A high monocyte level may indicate inflammation, infection, blood disorders, or other health issues. Along with ...