A new way to track blood hemoglobin levels may be at your fingertips | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

A new way to track blood hemoglobin levels may be at your fingertips | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Science Highlight: A new way to track blood hemoglobin levels may be at your fingertips

Biomedical engineers have developed a smartphone app for anemia screening that can assess blood hemoglobin levels through the window of the user’s fingernail. The medical results are based on the coloration of the fingernail bed; the quick and pain-free screening could benefit a vast number of people who are affected by anemia around the world.

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