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Article: Advent of New Mechanisms to Treat Sleep Disorders add Vibrancy to the Sleep Pharmaceuticals Arena.
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- Business Wire
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- August 20, 2007
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The direct and indirect cost of loss of productivity due to sleep disorders translates to hundreds of billions of dollars at the least in the United States alone, avalanching to several times the figure at the global level. This vast impact that sleep disorders have on the global economy is ensuring considerable research in this sphere, which contrary to the inherent property of sleep, is a very vibrant area with tremendous momentum.
According to the latest International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD), there are 90 different types of sleep disorders, all of which have an unpleasant effect on the quality of day to day life and ...