A new systematic review of fifteen studies finds that music, white noise, and nature sounds significantly improve sleep ...

Monitors. Alarms. Pagers. People. Hospital noise can keep patients from getting a good night's sleep. Sound panels tested in the hallways of a hospital system helped reduce noise around patient rooms.

A new design system attempts to solve this intractable problem through music. [Image: Man Made Music] “Right now, alarms are only designed to do two things: to scream for attention, which stresses ...

Newswise — 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 ...

Layered sounds weave together to conjure an instantly recognisable hospital corridor. A faint hiss from HVAC vents forms the base—a gentle, almost inaudible breath that sweeps through tiled walls.

When the musician Yoko Sen was hospitalized a few years ago, she could not help but hear the hospital’s many alarms as a musician. Consider a cardiac monitor that beeps in C, she says, along with a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain hospital sounds, such as electronic alarms, telephones and conversations, can wake people up even at relatively low levels, according to a new study. The results ...