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Sleeping Business Anyone?

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Here is an interesting article in Business2.0. Never knew about that there is a whole lot to this sleep business. When I first saw the head line in Business2.0 website, I thought this is just about mattresses. Well I am wrong, this biz can be high tech too. Read on at Business2.0 below.

$20 billion for a good night’s rest - October 1, 2006

Sleep is the new sex, it’s said, with Ambien filling in for Viagra. (No surprise that drug companies raked in nearly $3 billion last year on 43 million prescriptions for sleeping pills.) The economic toll of all this tossing and turning is $50 billion in lost productivity and $16 billion in health-care costs, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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