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Tired? Today NSF launches new site to help with excessive sleepiness
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Tired? Today NSF launches new site to help with excessive sleepiness

The National Sleep Foundation's new comprehensive Excessive Daytime Sleepiness resource center helps you understand a condition that is often widely misunderstood. Explore over 30 articles dedicated to explaining Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, learn how it affects your health, safety, and everyday performance, and find free patient resources.Visit excessivesleepiness.sleepfoundation.org. Start getting the answers you need…See More
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Alerting the public, healthcare providers and policymakers to the life-and-death importance of adequate sleep is central to the mission of NSF. NSF is dedicated to improving the quality of life for Americans who suffer from sleep problems and disorders. This means helping the public better understand the importance of sleep and the benefits of good sleep habits, and recognizing the signs of sleep problems so that they can be properly diagnosed and treated.

About Pillow Talk™
Pillow Talk™ is an online community where you can share your personal experience with sleep and sleep disorders using forums and blogs.

To begin chatting about sleep with others, click on the "Join" link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen to create your own password-protected account.

In the Pillow Talk forums, you can share your experience in a number of communities including those for shift workers and new parents as well as a forum for people with sleep problems and disorders.

About National Sleep Foundation
Alerting the public, healthcare providers and policymakers to the life-and-death importance of adequate sleep is central to the mission of NSF. NSF is dedicated to improving the quality of life for Americans who suffer from sleep problems and disorders. This means helping the public better understand the importance of sleep and the benefits of good sleep habits, and recognizing the signs of sleep problems so that they can be properly diagnosed and treated.

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National Sleep Foundation and The Big Sleep Show

The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce its acquisition of The Big Sleep Show, the first-ever consumer health event solely devoted to sleep and alertness, which debuted last year in Chicago. In collaboration with NBC television and its popular, regional health event, the Healthy Lifestyle Expo, NSF will launch "The National Sleep Foundation’s Big Sleep Show" at Chicago’s Navy Pier on Saturday-Sunday, March 21-22, 2009.



Supported by NBC–Chicago's (WMAQ-5) on-air… Continue

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Don't forget. If you missed Tuesday's NSF Alert, you can find daily updates at http://www.sleepfoundation.org/nsf alert.



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The New NSF Alert

Check out the all-new NSF Alert for information on how Sleepiness, Shift Work Increase the Risk of Crashes, as well as tips on how to beat the heat and sleep well.

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