How do you stay warm in the freezing winter months? The first way is by wearing lots of layers of comfortable and woolen clothing and the second way is by keeping your body temperature warm. When it ...

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 ...

Throughout history, people have had to find ways to cope with varying environmental conditions. Whether they lived in a hot or cold climate or had access to plentiful or limited water, they adapted ...

Individuals taking certain medications to treat chronic diseases are at risk of their body not being able to regulate to the correct temperature, a new study reveals. Researchers from Yong Loo Lin ...

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 ...

Humans have gotten cooler since the Civil War — by a little more than half a degree. According to a recent study, the average man’s body temperature is about 0.59 degrees C cooler today than someone ...

For a century, we have thought that 36.6°C (98.6°F) was the average temperature of a healthy person. But turns out there is no such thing. A new study from Stanford University challenges this ...

PARIS - Scientists have identified the maximum mix of heat and humidity a human body can survive. Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 80-year-old man in relatively good health. I don’t smoke or drink, and I have a vegetarian diet. I exercise moderately, and I am not overweight. About 30 years ago, I ...