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Sweat It Out! Skin Patch Aims to Test Sweat for Health

“Sweat has biochemical components within it that tell us a lot about physiological health,” said John A. Rogers, who directs Northwestern University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics and led the new research.

Today’s wearable technology helps people track their calories, activity and heart rate. A wearable biosensor would be “radically different,” Rogers said.

Sweat it out! Skin patch aims to test sweat for health

“Sweat has biochemical components within it that tell us a lot about physiological health,” said John A. Rogers, who directs Northwestern University’s Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics and led the new research.

Today’s wearable technology helps people track their calories, activity and heart rate. A wearable biosensor would be “radically different,” Rogers said.

These 13 happy couples sleep in separate beds. Here’s why.

Snoring, overactive sleepers, different temperature preferences or opposite sleep/wake times can ruin a partner’s rest, Phyllis Zee, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, told The Huffington Post.

And while bed sharing does help build emotional comfort and closeness that benefits relationships, sleeping side-by-side is not the only way to achieve that, Zee said. (Couples who sleep apart can try a morning or nighttime routine for cuddling and sex, she added.)

Having a baby after 35 linked to being mentally sharper later in life

Dr. Whitney You suspects that there may be some hidden biases in the data due to the fact that women who opt to delay pregnancy often have a higher educational level and socio-economic status, compared to women who don’t.

“They did ‘correct’ for this, but you can only correct so much,” said You, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. “We don’t know whether that is driving this result or whether it’s truly physiologic.”

Hi-Tech Skin Patch Might Someday Track Your Health

A new type of acoustic sensor that resembles a small Band-Aid on the skin can monitor your heartbeat and other health measures, researchers say. The sensor may one day offer a way to painlessly and wirelessly track an individual’s health. The patch, which weighs less than one-hundredth of an ounce, can help doctors monitor heart health, stomach condition, vocal cord activity, lung performance and potentially many other bodily functions, researchers say. “We’ve developed a soft, skin-like device that can listen to internal sounds created by function of internal organs,” explained study co-author John Rogers. He was a professor of materials science and engineering and a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the study and is currently at Northwestern University.

Hi-Tech Skin Patch Might Someday Track Your Health

A new type of acoustic sensor that resembles a small Band-Aid on the skin can monitor your heartbeat and other health measures, researchers say. The sensor may one day offer a way to painlessly and wirelessly track an individual’s health. The patch, which weighs less than one-hundredth of an ounce, can help doctors monitor heart health, stomach condition, vocal cord activity, lung performance and potentially many other bodily functions, researchers say. “We’ve developed a soft, skin-like device that can listen to internal sounds created by function of internal organs,” explained study co-author John Rogers. He was a professor of materials science and engineering and a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the study and is currently at Northwestern University.