The Center on Health Equity and Access offered novel insights on transgender health and pulmonary medicine with late-breaking data and expert interviews from ATS 2024.
In a scientific session at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2024 International Conference titled "An Inconvenient Truth: Health Disparities and Health Care Inequality in Respiratory Medicine," a number of experts discussed the various areas within the field that are impacted by disparities.
Devices can overestimate oxygen levels of people with dark skin — leading to less or delayed medical care. Devices can overestimate oxygen levels of people with dark skin — leading to less or delayed medical care.
THURSDAY, Aug. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) Overestimation of oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry leads to delayed delivery of COVID-19 therapy, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in