Here’s why we appear to be getting cooler, and what that could mean when it comes to fevers. By Dana G. Smith Over the past few decades, evidence has been mounting that the average human body ...

For decades, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit has been the widely accepted “normal” average temperature for the human body. But new research adds to the growing body of evidence that humans actually run a bit ...

For 150 years, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was thought to be the average body temperature for a healthy human being. But that number is wrong. “Doctors are no different from anybody else,” says Julie ...

The widely accepted belief that a healthy person's correct body temperature is 98.5 degrees Fahrenheit is now considered inaccurate, and here's why. Stanford University scientists have discovered that ...