
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 29, 1993                   TAG: 9307290086
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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HALF OF AMERICANS LACK SLEEP, DOCTORS SAY

Half of Americans suffer bouts of insomnia or chronic sleep loss that could endanger their health, a panel of leading sleep disorder experts cautioned Wednesday.

"Sleep disorders and chronic sleep deprivation are America's worst, largest and costliest invisible [medical] problem," Dr. William Dement, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., said at an American Medical Association briefing in New York.

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