Taking temperatures is the main way health care providers determine if a patient has a fever. Missing a possible fever could delay treatment. A study of more than 4,000 patients finds that Black ...

If you don't have a thermometer, you can still gauge if you have a fever by looking for fever-associated symptoms like chills and body aches.

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. A ...

Forehead thermometers are not as accurate as oral thermometers in detecting fevers among hospitalized Black patients, according to a study led by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta. The ...

The aftermath of the pandemic has left us more vulnerable yet forced us to become proactive in tackling health matters. Knowing a fever can result in testing positive for COVID-19, among other ...

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, ...