During in-house tests on popular clinical thermometers (mercury and digital) has found at least 16 popular brands to be inaccurate in calibration. In a shocking revelation, the Consumer Education ...

SFU EHS will swap your mercury thermometers with non-mercury alternatives for free. Simon Fraser University is committed to eliminating non-essential uses of mercury and mercury-containing products.

Traditional thermometers contain 700 to 1,000 milligrams of mercury, while the button batteries in digital thermometers hold about 2 milligrams -- and are less likely to release mercury into the ...

The mercury thermometer, long a fixture in household medicine cabinets and industrial settings, is going the way of the horse and buggy. The reason: Mercury released into the environment from a ...

Mercury is used in thermometers, barometers and other scientific apparatus, although the use of mercury in thermometers has been largely phased out in clinical and scientific environments (in ...

The World Health Organization has launched a drive to try to wipe out mercury in medical thermometers. On Thursday in Japan, delegates from some 140 countries and territories signed a UN treaty on ...

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 ...

Clinical thermometers are essential diagnostic tools used in healthcare to measure body temperature, a critical indicator of patient health. The market encompasses various types of thermometers, ...