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Men, Women & Sleep Sharing a bed with a partner can be as fulfilling as it is challenging. It’s comforting to reach for someone in the middle of the night and be rewarded with a warm snuggle. But if your sleep schedules differ, chaos can quickly come between you and a good night’s sleep. Night…

Playing fast and loose with sleep makes us feel (and sometimes act) like grumpy toddlers. But because sleep deprivation is the norm, we continue to stay up too late, answer emails from bed and ignore the fact that our off switch is ours to manage. While we wildly careen through our lives, ramping up our…

In a January 27th session held during the Las Vagas Market, the International Sleep Product Association provided an update on mattress-recycling developments and present the recycling outlook for 2014. To date, three states – California, Connecticut and Rhode Island – have passed mattress recycling in those states and continues to work with legislators and stakeholders…

There is no question that getting your share of a good night’s deep, restful, rejuvenating sleep is essential for good health.  Heck, it’s essential for life itself, yet so many of us suffer night after night lying in bed, trying to fall asleep only to be disappointed again and again.  Here are some proven steps…

How can a piece of paper make a sleep set last longer? Well, it can’t, unless you’re stuffing multiple reams of Dunder-Mifflin’s finest into the upholstery layers of a mattress. Yet bedding companies have known for years that offering a longer warranty, no matter how convoluted, changes the public’s perception of a mattress, making them…

“Get on top of a new mattress and get to the bottom of making the right purchase” is the theme of this year’s Better Sleep Month, which begins May 1 and is sponsored by the Better Sleep Council, the consumer education arm of the International Sleep Products Association. This year’s message is designed to help…

Should that be the headline of every mattress ad ever written? Seriously, think about that for a second because most consumers have absolutely no idea how important it is to sleep on a comfortable mattress. It’s important because the right mattress will give them the restorative sleep they desperately need. You think I am being…

Casey Vandeventer did not mean to text the name of her dead father to a friend. In fact, she wasn’t even conscious when it happened. No, this isn’t the beginning of a ghost story and Vandeventer, 31, wasn’t possessed. She was sleeptexting, and she’s not alone, according to researchers like Dr. Michael Gelb, a clinical…

Sleep-related “brainwashing” and shrinking brain cells sound scary but may hold the key to treating debilitating neurological disorders like Alzherimer’s disease. A recent study from New York’s University of Rochester Medical Center, published in the journal Science, shows that the brain’s glymphatic system, which washes away certain toxins from the brain, does most of its…

There’s good news for the 18 million Americans with sleep apnea, a disorder that causes airways to repeatedly collapse during sleep. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers have developed a surgically implanted “pulse generator” that senses when a patient is struggling to breathe and then stimulates the hypoglossal nerve in the neck…