Those mandatory temperature screenings at airports, offices, and medical facilities are not actually preventing COVID-19 spread, says a pair of researchers in an Open Forum Infectious Diseases op-ed.

Which forehead thermometers are best? We used to live in a time when checking someone’s temperature was only done to make sure they weren’t running too hot. Now, we live in a world where running even ...

Forehead thermometers take temperatures using infrared radiation. Whether the devices can pick up the radiation can be affected by something called skin emissivity. Skin emissivity is how much light, ...

Forehead thermometers may not be as accurate in reading temperatures for Black hospitalized patients, compared to oral thermometers, according to researchers at Emory University and the University of ...

As the weather cools and the holidays approach, I’m preparing for illness season: many different viruses spread during the fall and winter, especially around large indoor gatherings, according to the ...

VERNON HILLS, Ill., June 10, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Get precise and quick forehead temperature measurements without contact when using the new FDA-cleared noncontact infrared (IR) thermometer. It ...

A new study has found that forehead thermometers are less accurate than oral thermometers in detecting fevers in Black people, the news arm of Emory University — Emory News Center — is reporting.

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