Silencing Many Hospital Alarms Leads To Better Health Care Plus 4 More Stories

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Daily Briefing A look at the day's top stories News Silencing Many Hospital Alarms Leads To Better Health Care Alarms are good and necessary things in hospital care — except when there are so many that caregivers miss signals of a patient in crisis. Trying to conquer "alarm fatigue," one hospital turned off the beeps — and found that patient care actually improved. Read this story Daft Punk, Lorde And Macklemore Win Major Grammy Awards Daft Punk picked up trophies for album and record of the year, Lorde won two awards for "Royals," and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis took home four, including Best New Artist. Read this story Grand Canyon May Be Older (And Younger) Than You Think About 6 million years ago, a new mineral analysis suggests, a mighty river zigzagging across the Colorado plateau may have found its way into older gorges, greatly enlarging them to create the West's most spectacular canyon. Still, some geologists aren't sold. Read this story Legacy Of Forced March Still Haunts Navajo Nation In a series of marches that began in 1864, the U.S. Army forced thousands of Navajo and Mescalero Apache people to walk 400 miles to an isolated reservation; more than a third died. Some say today's ills in Indian Country — severe poverty, suicide, addiction — have their roots in the "Long Walk." Read this story Bernanke's Fed Legacy: A Tenure Full Of Tough Decisions Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will preside over his last Fed policy-making meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. During his two terms as chairman, he faced a global financial crisis that threatened to become financial Armageddon, followed by a deep recession. Read this story more news stories

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