So I'm enjoying the first of my 9 days off in a row by playing Call of Duty, driving a Russian tank and getting the smithereens shot out of me. After I get blown up the tank noises and the sounds of ...

Announcements blare from overhead speakers. Electronic devices beep. Heating and cooling systems rumble. Employees and visitors speak loudly. This sound snapshot, researchers say, comes not from a ...

Got a strange beeping sound that's coming from somewhere in your house and driving you nuts? How to resolve the issue. There are few things more annoying than an incessant beeping sound in your home ...

In hospitals, alarms on patient-monitoring devices create a cacophony of noise day and night—beeping, pinging and ringing so often that doctors and nurses ignore them, turn them off or just stop ...

Acoustical engineers say hospital noise levels have grown steadily over the past five decades, stressing patients and staff, raising the risk of medical errors and hindering efforts to modernize ...

There are few things more annoying than an incessant beeping sound in your home that no matter how high and low you search, you can't identify. It could be a smoke detector, appliance, security system ...

Hospital noise can be an insidious seed planted in a patient’s memory. “They will recall extraordinary acts of kindness and consideration. However, they will also remember the agony of not being able ...

In her 1859 book “Notes on Nursing,” Florence Nightingale called unnecessary noise in hospitals “the most cruel absence of care.” A century and a half later, her message still seems to be falling on ...

UPS delivered a seemingly harmless, shoebox-size package about 10:30 a.m. yesterday to the rehabilitation department at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. But a hospital employee carrying ...