May 25, 2010 -- Consumer Reports Health has issued a new ranking of the six repellents it says are best to ward off mosquitoes and deer ticks. The magazine says it tested 10 insect repellents in an outside laboratory, where volunteers let deer ticks crawl on them and also exposed themselves to mosquitoes.
Keep Your Cool to Sleep Better. Your body temperature can affect how well you sleep. Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam found that people slept better when their skin was slightly cooled.
Quick Facts: 1  Body temperature can change throughout the day. 2  Body temperature may be abnormal due to fever (high temperature) or hypothermia (low temperature). 3  A temperature over 38Â°C (100.4Â°F) most often means you have a fever caused by infection or illness.