Cottage Hospital is joining Santa Barbara’s chorus of high-octane concern over the accidental and inadvertent consumption of fentanyl and how it’s leading to drug overdoses and death, especially by ...

Alabama’s major statewide health organizations have joined forces to raise attention about the dangers and prevalence of illicit fentanyl, a powerful drug that is the leading cause of overdose deaths ...

A new system takes a novel approach to monitoring patients’ vital signs, like heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygen saturation, with pleasant-sounding melodies instead of alarms. Designed by ...

Are computerized hospital alarms trying to tell us too much? The beeping of monitors has become the ever-present audio wallpaper of hospital units. Medical devices monitoring patients send off alerts ...

After a recent hospital stay filled with frightening, uselessly beeping gadgets, an ambient musician set to work reinventing the aural landscape of medicine, to make life calmer for patients and ...

Dozens of nurses gathered outside Mission Hospital on Tuesday morning in protest of the hospital's performance in staffing, health and safety, recruitment and retention, and meal and rest breaks.