The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
- W. C. Fields
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The latest issue of Archives of Internal Medicine is devoted to sleep. The articles are freely available. Here is the press release:
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it has on sleep. (You have to register to read it, but
registration is free.)
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