What is considered a good night's sleep?
Worried that you're not sleeping soundly enough? In this HealthMakers video, Michael Timothy Smith, MA, PhD, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at Johns Hopkins University, explains that waking during the night is common.
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