Many parents know that their own pulse or heart rate should be within about 60 to 100 beats per minute. Your child, however, may have a higher pulse rate, depending on their age. Because heart rate ...

Monitoring pulse rate is essential for understanding both physical and mental health. Normal resting heart rates range from 55 to 85 beats per minute, with well-trained athletes potentially having ...

What we physicians tell patients should be based on evidence, but that doesn’t always happen. A good example is when patients ask what their pulse rate should be, and we tell patients between 60 and ...

Every time you visit a doctor, you will notice that they will put their fingertips on your wrist and seem to check something. In medical terms, it is known as reading the pulse. Examining the pulse ...

Typically clipped over a finger (though a toe or ear lobe works, too), a pulse oximeter transmits light from sensors on one side of the device through the body part to sensors on the other side. In ...

An irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation is a big cause of stroke, especially for people who have recently had a stroke. But it's not something that most people can feel. Doctors test for ...

The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure. She has ...