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Violent responses to noise complaints
Photo credit: Tony Webster licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skie As the GrowNYC board member who oversees our noise activities, I receive many...
Amsterdam’s airport proposes banning night flights, private jets to cut noise
Photo credit: Shirley de Jong licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I am often asked by people impacted by aircraft noise when their local...
Gas leaf blower and lawn mower bans are beginning to spread
Photo credit: Cbaile19 dedicated this photo to the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Today reports that bans on gas-powered leaf blowers and gas-powered lawn mowers are beginning to spread nationwide. Noise from gas leaf blowers has been...
The recommended occupational noise exposure limit needs to be lowered
This photo by Chuck Kardous (NIOSH) is in the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of this blog post is also the title of my latest publication. As I have often told my noise colleagues when they have tried to get me to write...
The WHO short lists films on ear and hearing care
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I learn by reading, but many learn by watching television shows or documentaries or by listening to podcasts. The World Health Organization sponsors the Health for All Film Festival, which "believes in the power of...
Quiet victory: Garage bell hell silenced
Photo credit: Enric Cruz López by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In an earlier post, readers were told about a lawsuit brought by a resident in a St. Petersburg...
Today is International Noise Awareness Day
Photo credit: by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition International Noise Awareness Day was started in 1996 to raise awareness of unwanted noise and its dangers. Today, April 26, is this year’s observance. Noise has auditory and non-auditory health effects....
“Sonic Sea” screening
Image courtesy of Sound Defense Alliance 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 posts know that noise does not just harm humans--research has...
Los Angeles Metro using classical music as a weapon
Photo credit: Visitor7 licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Los Angeles Times and other media outlets recently reported that the LA Metro, the local rapid transit operator, is using classical music as a weapon to discourage...
Link shown between transportation noise and higher suicide risk
Photo credit: Liza Summer by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Swiss researchers looking into the impact of environmental factors on mental health have found that...
Bionic Hearing–When is it time to get a cochlear implant?
Photo credit: Hear hear! licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of this post is also the title of an informative article in the current issue of Acoustics Today, a publication of the Acoustical Society of America. I’m...
Hearing loss may affect the brain
Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This interesting essay on Medpagetoday discusses something we have recently covered , the possible effect of hearing loss on developing dementia. The author is Shannon Halloway, RN, PhD, who does...