There is an advertising-fueled medicine myth in America that a little pill can cure you.
Sleeping pills are one of the more widely used meds prescribed to approximately 60 million people in the United States.
However, these began coming under scrutiny when a British Medical Journal Online article in Maytriggered sleepless nights after reporting the association with some common sleeping pills to a four-fold increased risk of death—even for those taking small doses.
Nonetheless, the Chicago Tribune reported this week: "Can a safer Ambien make billions?
Merck aims to find out."