A hospital executive in my home state of Texas was telling me about a fairly minor surgery she had about 18 months ago. One of the things she remembers most about her recovery time at the hospital was ...

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 ...

Shravan Govindaraj, Product Marketing Manager, XP Power, highlights how hospitals can reduce noise pollution in essential medical equipment.

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 ...

In an editorial published today in the BMJ, researchers from King's College London and the University of the Arts London (UAL) argue that it is a worsening problem, with levels regularly exceeding ...

"I feel like I am in jail." This is a Kaiser Health News story. When Kea Turner’s 74-year-old grandmother checked into Virginia’s Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital with advanced lung cancer, she ...

Children and their parents who sleep in a hospital setting are exposed to noise levels that that surpass WHO’s recommended noise levels in Europe. This exposure, according to researchers, ...

The sound echoed throughout Montefiore Medical Center, like somebody pounding dozens of nails around the clock. Wham! Wham! Wham! The source was actually a pill banger, used to crush medications for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a principal and lead medical planner with NBBJ. It goes without saying that throughout the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare ...

A hospital patient has been arrested after she allegedly twice switched off the oxygen equipment on which a fellow patient depended because it was too noisy, German authorities have said. The public ...