Before Taking Prescription Sleep-Aids Consider Changing Your Pillow.

SUMMIT, N.J. -- As Americans work longer hours and juggle the demands of work and family, getting a good night's sleep is becoming increasingly difficult. Most adults require 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night, but many are surviving on only 5 to 6. Many Americans are overly fatigued and studies now show that this fatigue results in an inability to cope with stress and an acceleration of the affects of aging.

According to the National Institutes of Health, about 60 million Americans suffer from infrequent insomnia, and sleep disorders account for approximately $16 billion in annual health care costs. Sleeping pills are being filled at record numbers to combat the inability to sleep. According to Consumer Reports, pharmacists filled 43 million sleep-aid prescriptions in 2005, amounting to a 32 percent increase from 2001. Ironically this prescription based solution can become a problem in itself, since over time people need more and stronger prescriptions, increasing the risk of negative side affects, addiction, and further impairing the ability to sleep normally and drug free.

What many people do not know is that getting a better night's sleep may be as simple as changing your pillow. The Mediflow Waterbase pillow is the only pillow shown to improve the quality of sleep by a peer-reviewed clinical study performed at a leading medical school. According to the Johns Hopkins Hospital Neck-Pain and Quality-of-Sleep Study published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, proper selection of a pillow can significantly improve quality of sleep.

The Johns Hopkins study examined four factors: (1) How quickly subjects fell asleep, (2) How few times subjects woke up, (3) Perceptions of sleep compared to normal, and (4) Overall quality of sleep. Conclusions indicate Mediflow's patented water-based pillow ranked "Best" in all 4 categories when compared to others tested. More than 3 million Mediflow pillows have been sold in the U.S. to date.

The Mediflow Waterbase pillow has earned a superior reputation in the health care community for its innovation and clinically proven results. In a study on adults with chronic neck pain conducted at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Mediflow water-based pillow was associated with reduced morning pain intensity, increased pain relief, and improved quality of sleep. For additional information, please visit www.Mediflow.com.