As cold and flu season continues, Exergen Corporation, the maker of the Temporal Scanner thermometer, is educating people on how to tell the difference between the cold and the flu. While cold and flu symptoms are typically the same – sore throat, runny nose, fatigue – only the flu is…
Health care professionals will be able to see for themselves the benefits of using the innovative Temporal Artery Thermometer in hospitals, clinics, and at home Exergen, a global leader in infrared temperature measurement technologies for medical applications, will exhibit its TAT-5000, TAT-2000, and TAT-2000C thermometers at “Medicall” Expo in Delhi,…
Americans Want Accuracy in Public Temperature Screenings A new national online survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of the Exergen Corporation shows that over two-thirds of Americans (68%) want thermometers to be used in public spaces to screening for COVID-19 and its variants during cold and flu season…
One thing has remained constant with U.S. healthcare: it keeps getting more expensive. The American Medical Association reports1 that medical expenditures increased by 4.6% in 2019 to $3.8 trillion. This followed a 4.7% jump in 2018 and 4.6% increase in 2016. At the same time, medical waste is one of the top…
Companies Implement Ineffective Screenings to Give Employees and Customers Misleading Reassurance A new study[1] published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM) shows senior management overriding the advice of their medical directors regarding screening employees with non-contact thermometers. The study also shows non-contact thermometers are inaccurate, and those…
Through her tears, Mahi’s mother saw the temperature reading her thermometer had just produced – fever! “Please not my little baby girl who has already suffered so much in her life!”, she said to herself. Many parents are desperate. They are hardly able to protect themselves against the COVID-19 virus.…
The Heat Balance (HB) Series of IRt/c infrared thermocouples have the ability to measure the internal temperature of the target material, non-invasively, by employing a patented heat balance technique. A typical application in medical equipment is monitoring or controlling the temperature of fluid transported through disposable tubing when warming or…
A new study1 published by JAMA Network proves that individuals, in this case, young, healthy, male basketball players, who tested positive for COVID-19 but were asymptomatic, did not spread the virus despite being in a closed, isolation “bubble” over a period of months. Over approximately four months, nearly 4,000 basketball…
