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You wake up at 6 am feeling achy and chilled. Unsure if you’re sick or just sleep-deprived, you reach for a thermometer. It beeps at 99°F, so you groan and roll out of bed and get ready for work.

Mississippi State University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. As warm-blooded animals, human beings produce heat as a byproduct of the chemical reactions that provide energy from ...

Fever is common in the symptomatic stage of COVID-19, and as workplaces and child care spaces reopen, temperature checks are one way officials are trying to identify those sick with the coronavirus.

Fever is common in the symptomatic stage of COVID-19, and as workplaces and child care spaces reopen, temperature checks are one way officials are trying to identify those sick with the coronavirus.

While 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is often cited as the standard for normal body temperature, adults’ average body temperature may be closer to 97.9 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a study published Sept ...

Feeling under the weather? Chances are you or your doctor will grab a thermometer, take your temperature and hope for the familiar 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius) everyone recognizes as ...

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Whether you have a stomachache, a wrist sprain or a chronic disease, one of the first things doctors and nurses will do at an appointment is take your temperature. A normal temperature means your body ...