Personal Perspective: "Normal" isn’t perfection but a statistical range based on population data. Diagnoses compare ...

I grew up in an era when everyone wanted nothing more than to be seen as “normal.” Conformity was at an all-time high back then and the very last thing anyone wanted was to be considered different ...

Julie Parsonnet’s then-mother-in-law had been feeling ill, but her body temperature did not suggest a fever. It hovered at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, long regarded as the standard for normal, and never ...