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When a commercial for sleeping pills comes on television or you seen an advertisement in a magazine, you may glaze over the exhaustive list of warnings and side effects. Pharmaceutical companies are required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to list the potential dangers and side effects in any marketing campaign, but that does…

Doctors, nurses, and technicians who work around patients with monitoring systems every day face a barrage of beeps, signals, and flashing lights. More often than not, the noise is indicating something benign, such as a button reset. Other times, however, the alarms can signal a life or death moment. This over-stimulation of light and sound…