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 ...

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 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 ...