It has long been believed that 98.6°F is the normal human body temperature, but recent evidence coming out of the Stanford University School of Medicine (SUSM) contends that might no longer be ...

Over the past few decades, evidence has been mounting that the average human body temperature is not really 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Instead, most people’s baseline is a little bit cooler.

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. But for at least the past two decades, researchers have ...

The study found that normal human body temperature naturally varies between 36.2°C and 36.8°C (97.3°F and 98.2°F), suggesting that the commonly accepted value may be too high.

The temperature 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit may be seared into your brain as the average temperature of the human body, but a recent study shows that that’s no longer the case.

STANFORD, Calif. - The average temperature of the human body is slightly lower than the standard 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit established more than 150 years ago, according to research from the ...

Building on the work of French doctors that showed inflamed parts of the body have a higher temperature than the rest, and that the average human body temperature was 36.9°C (98.5°F), he set out ...

He concluded that the average human body temperature was 98.6°F, underscoring the idea that fever is a symptom of illness, not a cause. No one questioned Wunderlich’s methods, or his average ...

For nearly 150 years, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit has been the accepted standard temperature for the human body. But at least two dozen modern studies have concluded the number is too high.

The average human body temperature was determined by German physicist Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich in 1851. To do so, he collected millions of temperature readings for 25,000 patients in ...