IOWA CITY — From hallway chatter and cellphone chimes to beeping equipment and carts rattling by, hospitals can be noisy places, making it hard for patients to get the rest they need to recover. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...