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Neonatal intensive care units can be noisy places which can disturb the sleep patterns of the youngest patients in the hospitals and have a negative effect on their health. In an effort to ameliorate this, some NICUs have set quiet times to limit exposure to noise. However, little was known about the effects of the […]

Elderly women account for a large part of the world’s population. The number of females aged 60 and over is on course to cross one billion in 2050. This would correspond to a tripling of the level from 335 million in 2000. Older women out-number older men, and this imbalance rises with age. Indeed,  the […]

The deluge of data produced during medical care has typically been under-utilized or simply wasted. In the era of paper, this was explicable. However, in spite of nearly three decades of computerization, medical data remains difficult to access and organize, let alone use. Such a gap is both large and dramatic in the intensive care […]