You are getting very sleepy ...

Get ready for a barrage of news media and advertising attention to insomnia, says this story by Andrew Pollack in the New York Times. Drug companies have new sleeping pills in the pipeline and are sure to try to expand their markets.

"Frankly, worrying people about sleep is good for the drug companies, it's good for the sleep clinics and maybe it helps people get research funding too," says Dr. Daniel Kripke. professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego, in the New York Times story. Kripke has a web site called the Dark Side of Sleeping Pills.