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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. “Doctors are no different from anybody else,” says Julie ...

As temperatures around the world rise because of climate change, the human body is increasingly confronting a little-understood and increasing hazard: excessive heat. From enduring heatwaves to ...

W. Larry Kenney receives research grant funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging. Daniel Vecellio is supported by a training grant from the National Institute on ...