Fri 22 Sep 2006
Many Americans toss, turn, and try complementary and alternative medicines to ease insomnia. More than 35 million U.S. adults regularly had insomnia in 2002, and 1.6 million of them tried complementary or alternative therapies to get some sleep.
Those figures come from Nancy Pearson, Ph.D., and colleagues at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), part of the National Institutes of Health. Pearson’s team checked data on more than 31,000 U.S. adults from a 2002 government health survey.