A new study finds that temporal thermometers — used to measure body temperature on the forehead — may be less accurate than oral thermometers at detecting fevers among hospitalized Black patients.

Remember Mom placing her cool hand on your hot forehead to check for a fever? Now there’s a high-tech version of that loving, motherly gesture: a new type of thermometer that may allow doctors, ...

Being a parent I know what it’s like to have to take the temperature of a wiggly kid. Not an easy task. Even adults can become impatient and annoyed by mouth or even ear thermometers. The Nokia Thermo ...

Doctors depend on accuracy The researchers -- from Emory University in Atlanta and the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu -- examined the performance of temporal ...