Tuesday, January 2, 2007

"Search for Sound Sleep Pays"

Loud snoring and insomnia used to be merely annoying. Now they are big business.

In Philadelphia and across the country, sleep-diagnostic centers are popping up and people once aggravated by a lousy night's sleep are getting help.

One beneficiary of the push for more testing is a local company, Viasys Healthcare Inc., which makes medical equipment including devices to diagnose and treat sleep ailments like sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing stops repeatedly for brief periods during sleep.

Read via PhillyCom

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