Online sound snippets intended to help market ring tones sold by phone operators and other distributors often are illegally downloaded and used free of charge, a new study found. Cell phone operators ...

Tinted sunscreen products protect against UV and visible light. But there aren't many shade options for those with darker skin tones. Sunscreen is an essential part of any skin care regimen — and for ...

Pulse oximeters—one of the most common medical devices used in global health care—can provide significantly overestimated oxygen saturation readings in people with darker skin tones, according to the ...

The accuracy of wearables employing photoplethysmography (PPG)-based heart rate sensors may vary significantly between specific devices and activity types, but these sensors’ performances do not ...

Wearables are now a common sight, with 16% of Americans reporting owning a smartwatch by one recent count. Apple, Samsung and Fitbit generated 88% of all unit sales, according to the 2019 report from ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers tested the ability of specialized and general physicians to diagnose skin illness across skin tone in a simulated ...

A systematic review draws together five decades of research -- including more than 730,000 individual measurements -- to assess how a person's skin tone can influence the readings provided by some of ...