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2025 One Hertz Challenge: An Arduino-Based Heart Rate Sensor https://hackaday.com/2025/08/15/2025-one-hertz-challenge-an-arduino-based-heart-rate-sensor/ #2025HackadayOneHertzChallenge #heartratesensor #pulseoximeter #Pulseoximetry #heartrate #contests

2025 One Hertz Challenge: An Arduino-Based Heart Rate Sensor - How fast does your heart beat? It’s a tough question to answer, because our heart ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/15/2025-one-hertz-challenge-an-arduino-based-heart-rate-sensor/ #2025hackadayonehertzchallenge #heartratesensor #pulseoximeter #pulseoximetry #heartrate #contests

Blood Oxygen Measurements to Return to Some Apple Watches - The company said it will issue a software update to restart the technology, which was cau... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/technology/apple-watch-masimo-blood-oxygen-levels.html #customsandborderprotection(us) #computersandtheinternet #inventionsandpatents #masimocorporation #watchesandclocks #pulseoximetry #software #appleinc

Open Cardiography Signal Measuring Device https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/open-cardiography-signal-measuring-device/ #electrocardiography #electrocardiogram #bloodpressure #pulseoximeter #Pulseoximetry #MedicalHacks #stethoscope

Open Cardiography Signal Measuring Device - Much of the world’s medical equipment is made by a handful of monopolistic megacor... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/13/open-cardiography-signal-measuring-device/ #electrocardiography #electrocardiogram #bloodpressure #pulseoximeter #pulseoximetry #medicalhacks #stethoscope

Apple Steps Up Its Lobbying to Change Patent Rules - After losing two complaints before the U.S. International Trade Commission, Apple has ste... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/technology/apple-patents-lobbying.html #unitedstatesinternationaltradecommission #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #computersandtheinternet #lobbyingandlobbyists #inventionsandpatents #wearablecomputing #masimocorporation #lawandlegislation #pulseoximetry #smartphones #appleinc #buckken

Apple Expected to Remove a Health Feature From New Apple Watches - The Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 would no longer detect people’s pulse rate, to... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/technology/apple-watch-oximetry-international-trade-commission.html #unitedstatesinternationaltradecommission #computersandtheinternet #inventionsandpatents #wearablecomputing #masimocorporation #pulseoximetry #appleinc

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-medicine-gets-wrong-about-race/
Some diagnostic tests give distorted results 4 Black patients. How R doctors trying 2 change that?
#algorithms #racisminmedicine #kidneydisease #pulseoximetry #covid
"race isn’t a biological category. It can be tied 2 biological traits, eg skin pigmentation, but it’s not so clear cut. There R lots of African Americans who have much lighter skin than many S. Indians, but South Indians may not identify as Black. There’s no medical test that can identify a person’s race."

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So fucked. I discovered an interesting study from a few years ago. They were studying the psychological effects of wearing masks, but keep in mind these were consenting adults not wearing them for 8+ hours a day for more than a year. Here's a couple quotes from the study.

in the masked condition, they felt less themselves: e.g. less like a person, felt that there was no ‘me’, felt that they had lost part of their identity, or felt that their personality had changed. It also includes two participants who talked about this transformation more in terms of becoming an-other: i.e. they felt like they had a different identity, like they were ‘a little bit alien’, like they had become ‘a stranger…, somebody else, somebody anonymous’, or like they were ‘someone different’

…you do feel a little bit alien, because you know that you appear strange to other people… It made you feel less like a person, that you haven’t got a face, you haven’t got that bit of you which other people see first and quite often recognise you by, so it sort of takes away a bit of your identity, and—I dunno…

Pulse Oximeters and Coronavirus: Devices Have Higher Error Rate in Black Patients - A study showed that the devices, which measure oxygen levels in the blood, were three times more l... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/health/oximeters-covid-black-patients.html #newenglandjournalofmedicine #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #your-feed-healthcare #raceandethnicity #tests(medical) #pulseoximetry #blackpeople #research #oxygen