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 ...

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The scientists found that normal human body temperature naturally varies between 36.2°C and 36.8°C. (Image Credits: Pixabay) A new study by researchers from Stanford University has revealed the ...

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A Stanford University study led by Dr. Julie Parsonnet challenges the long-held belief that the average body temperature of a healthy person is 36.6°C (98.6°F). Analyzing over 618,000 measurements, ...

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 ...

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 as long as one can remember, the widely accepted benchmark for normal human body temperature has been 98.6°F (36.6°C). However, according to recent groundbreaking research from Stanford University ...

In a recent article, a number of scientists at Stanford (Protsiv et al.) raised the puzzling question of why the average human body temperature has decreased since the Industrial Revolution. Our ...

New research has shown that normal human brain temperature varies much more than we thought, and this could be a sign of healthy brain function. In healthy men and women, where oral temperature is ...