Since a common symptom of Covid-19 is a fever, some concerned folks may be taking their temperatures more often these days. If you feel panic when your thermometer beeps and reads 0.2 degree higher ...

Perhaps our body temperature isn’t 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit — or at least not anymore. One woman, while lying down while feeling sick, posited that on TikTok. Citing research that the more common ...

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 ...

Julie Parsonnet’s then-mother-in-law had been feeling ill, but her body temperature did not suggest a fever. It hovered at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, long regarded as the standard for normal, and never ...

For seemingly forever, we’ve been told 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is the standard for a normal body temperature. However, recent studies suggest that the number may be outdated. According to research, ...

Clinicians have long adhered to 98.6 degrees as the standard, healthy human temperature, but recent research suggests it’s more commonly between 97.3 and 98.2 degrees Fahrenheit. As such, health ...

That thermometer reading you barely glance at during a doctor’s visit? It might be hiding critical information about your health that goes far beyond checking for a fever. While we’ve long treated ...