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By the Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research. Edited by Harvey R. Colten and Bruce M. Altevogt. 404 pp., illustrated. Washington, DC, National Academies Press, 2006. $48.95. ISBN 978-0-309-10111-0.

The field of sleep medicine has grown rapidly over the past 30 years, in large part due to the following events: the appointment of the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, which led to the creation of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research within the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and to the recognition of sleep medicine as an independent medical specialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties, which led to the establishment of accredited sleep medicine fellowship training programs by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

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