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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.

We shouldn’t be afraid to use the word ‘vagina’

About half of the time, parents use pet words for the anatomy when they take their children to his office, said Dr. Scott Goldstein, a pediatrician with Northwestern Children’s Practice and instructor at the Feinberg School of Medicine. But Goldstein said he’d prefer that parents use the proper terminology. “It is important to teach children the name of their body parts, so that they are comfortable understanding and communicating about their bodies,” Goldstein said. “Just like it would be odd to teach a child to call their eye a ‘see see’ or their hand a ‘touchy touchy,’ it can be infantilizing and discomforting to encourage them to use euphemisms or unique words to discuss their genitals.”