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Devices for a good night's rest advance at alarming rates: products to treat sleep apnea elbow their way into a growing market.

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You lay awake at night with a pillow clenched over your head, willing yourself to ignore the snorting and honking emitting from your beloved's nasal cavity. It starts as a low growl and grows to a thundering roar until suddenly--it stops, and all is still too still. "Is he still breathing?" you wonder.

For most, thankfully, breathing resumes. But this condition isn't a simple annoyance: It could be sleep apnea.

Sleep apnea, according to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, is a sleep disorder characterized by repeated pauses in breathing during sleep. Apnea means, literally, "without breath." Such episodes recur repeatedly through the night, and the time elapsed between breaths can be up to 20 seconds.

Many people have no idea that they suffer from sleep apnea (except when informed by a beleagured loved one), and suspect something is wrong only when alarming symptoms appear during waking hours. Symptoms include excessive...

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