The cone-shaped tip of the tympanic thermometer uses infrared technology to measure body temperature from heat of the eardrum (tympanic membrane) and the surrounding tissue. That heat is then converted to a digital reading.
HOLIDAY, Fla. â Former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay died Tuesday after his plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Pasco County Sheriffâs Office confirmed in a press conference. The Florida Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Coast Guard, Pasco Fired Department and Pasco Sheriffâs Office all responded to the scene after a 911 call came in from a nearby residence.
Billy Cox, one of the best third basemen in the major leagues when he played for Brooklyn in the early 1950's, died yesterday of cancer in Polyclinic Hospital in Harrisburg. Pa. He was 58 years old. Cox's home was in Newport, Pa., a rural central Pennsylvania town where he started as a high school player and where his last work was as a bartender.