Tag: JAMA Internal Medicine

Rethinking the standard 98.6 degree body temperature

Editor's Note Looking at the temperature measurements of more than 126,000 patients, researchers have found that the once-accepted standard body temperature of 98.6 degrees may not be an accurate measure, as reported in JAMA Internal Medicine on September 5.   The 98.6 degree average was originally arrived at in 1868 by…

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By: Brita Belli
October 17, 2023
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