When your baby feels warm, it does not always mean they have a fever. A baby's age and how you take their temperature matter more than you think. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, explains why certain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 However, recent studies suggest that the number may be outdated.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, ...