When it comes to monitoring a patient’s vital signs, the image that often comes to mind is a bulky, expensive and intrusive machine requiring constant attention from medical personnel throughout the ...

MIT has developed a new type of lightweight sensor that can be integrated into flexible fabrics, including the kinds of polyesters often used in athletic wear, to provide constant monitoring of vital ...

A hospital room without its ubiquitous nest of wires, patches, screens and beeping machines is the vision put forward by Oxehealth, which has received a landmark green light from the FDA for a new ...

Electronic vital sign monitors have been common in hospitals for more than 40 years. On TV or in movies, they start making noises, and doctors and nurses come running, yelling things like “stat!” If ...