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Researching noise-induced hearing loss
Photo credit: Rodolfo Quirós by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A press release from the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus reports on assistant professor Nathaniel Greene's research on noise-induced hearing loss. As the article points out,...
The other side of disability access
Photo credit: Jack Sparrow by John Drinkwater, JD, MBA, Co-Founder, The Quiet Coalition In a recent blog I praised Walmart for its “sensory-friendly” Saturday morning hours with dimmed lighting and no background music. Disabled, able-bodied and Walmart employees left...
Kids earbuds? You’ve got be kidding
Photo credit: Monstera by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Kids’ earbuds? You’ve got to be kidding. Unfortunately, though, the Digital Trends site isn’t kidding when reporter Simon Cohen writes, “these kids’ earbuds let outside sounds in automatically.” ...
3M settles military earbud lawsuit
Photo credit: Staff Sgt. Jason Hull, Public Domain / United States Department of Defense by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN, among other media outlets, reported at the end of August that 3M, a multinational industry and consumer good conglomerate,...
Noise cameras coming to the Upper West Side
Photo credit: Momos, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Upper West Side of Manhattan registered as many as 25,000 noise complaints to 311...
Could common dietary supplements fight hearing loss?
Photo credit: Polina Tankilevitch by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Could common dietary supplements fight hearing loss? That’s the question raised in a report on the SciTech Daily site, discussing an article in PLOS Biology. The research, done by...
Have a restful Labor Day
Photo credit: Ben Mack Enjoy the holiday!
Hospitals are noisy. They don’t have to be.
Photo credit: Vidal Balielo Jr. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of this post is also the title of an article on the Association of American Medical College's website by a medical student at University of California Los Angeles and a surgical...
UK drivers want noise cameras to catch and fine loud motorists
Photo credit: Omar Ramadan by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of the Quiet Coalition blog know that Quiet Communities has followed the introduction of noise...
Perceiving the world as animals do
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The pandemic, as I wrote earlier, allowed more people to focus on the pleasant environmental sounds around them....
Hearing loss is very common after age 71
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In the United States, hearing loss is very common after age 71. This is generally a well-known fact, but not to the level of detail reported by audiologist Nicholas Reed and colleagues at Johns...
New York City councilmembers seek less intrusive sirens
Photo credit: David Vincent Villavicencio by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Those who have read my posts on the Quiet Coalition know that I often say there are a number...