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, ...

Flushed skin, a sweaty back and a general feeling of discomfort are all tell-tale signs of an illness. These physical symptoms allude to a raised body temperature, but the only sure way to tell if ...

An image of a mother taking her baby's temperature. Getty Images. During cold and flu season, parents should have a reliable thermometer on hand—especially as COVID-19 still spreads across the country ...

NEW YORK — The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus on Thursday recommended that Exergen modify superior performance claims for its temporal thermometers as compared ...

The significance of changes in body temperature to identify illness was discovered about 140 years ago by Carl Wunderlich, who developed the clinical mercury thermometer. He was the first person to ...

Oh, to be born in 2012. Used to be a fever meant your already unhappy, uncomfortable infant was subjected to a rectal temperature check. Now pharmacy shelves are lined with gadgets that promise an ...

A new study out of England, published in the Lancet medical journal, suggests that ear thermometers used to take an infant's temperature are unreliable. In The Early Show's HealthWatch, Dr. Mallika ...