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Article: Sleep research mostly will study 'normal' folks
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- Journal of Business
- Article date:
- September 2, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Northwest Business Press Inc. Sep 02, 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Before long, every American soldier in a battlefield situation will wear a personal physiological status monitor that will send commanders radio telemetry readings on the soldier's condition.
The device will provide readings on the soldier's heartbeat, calorie burn rate, hydration status, and sleep status, says Dr. Greg Belenky, the new director for sleep studies at the fledgling Spokane Alliance for Medical Research.
"The battalion commander manages fuel," says Belenky, "You wouldn't ask him to manage fuel unless he knew how much of it he has." Right now, he says, society as well as the military has such a lack of knowledge about sleep.
Belenky is a 59-year-old U.S. Army colonel who for ...