When it gets too noisy on the second-floor cardiac care unit at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, a traffic light on the wall near the nurse station turns red and the overhead lights dim. The ...

Syracuse, NY -- When it gets too noisy on the second-floor cardiac care unit at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, a traffic light on the wall near the nurse station turns red and the overhead ...

CHICO — The stop light turned red Friday after recess, setting off the Yacker Tracker siren in a first-grade classroom. The 6- and 7-year-old students at Marigold School knew that meant they were ...

BRANDON, S.D. -- Colton Hood takes recess seriously. So, Hood and his third-grade pals at Robert Bennis Elementary have learned to use their inside voices at lunch, thanks in part to a noise ...

Nurses might be talking up a storm outside a room. Doctors are paged. Intravenous alarms sound. Food carts rattle. Fingers pounding a computer keyboard echo like tiny jackhammers. Jonathon Starkey, 47 ...

Phoebe nurses are taking extraordinary measures to make sure the babies aren't disturbed. Phoebe bought hundreds of pairs of little yellow minnie muffs to protect the babies' hearing. The earmuffs ...

Nurse Jonathan Schamaun sits near a “Yacker Tracker” that flashes red for noisy at the James A. Haley VA hospital in Tampa. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper ...