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Could Pfizer’s COVID vaccine cause hearing loss?
Photo credit: Maksim Goncharenok by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on Medscape discusses a possible link between the Pfizer COVID vaccine and hearing loss. I think the Medscape headline overstates the case. A possible statistical association,...
Today is Earth Day. A quieter world will be better for us all
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The first Earth Day took place exactly 52 years ago, April 22, 1970. The environmental movement was still in its infancy, kickstarted by Rachel Carson’s 1962 New Yorker article Silent Spring, which was published as a book...
International Noise Awareness Day Forum coming up
Photo credit: by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies To celebrate the 27th annual International Noise Awareness Day on April 27th from Noon to 1:30 pm (Pacific Time), the...
Animal sounds are too precious to be drowned out by human noise
Photo credit: NADExRioTic from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Neel Dhanesha has written a lovely article in Vox where he interviewed University of the South biology professor David Haskell about his new book Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic...
London Underground noise complaints on the rise
Photo credit: Roy Reyna from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Thomas Mackintosh, BBC, writes in his recent article on the London Underground that there has been...
Auditory cortex stimulation improves speech perception over background noise
Photo credit: Bradley P. Ander, et al. licensed under CC BY 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on Medical Net discusses an unexpected finding: stimulation of the auditory cortex helped an epilepsy patient understand speech in a simulated...
Quieter FedEx delivery trucks are here
Photo by Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I was doing some yard work when a FedEx truck pulled up to a neighbor’s house. Unlike most FedEx trucks, with too-noisy diesel engines, this one was quiet. I went over to take a look and couldn’t...
Utah docs threaten Harley-Davidson with lawsuit
Photo credit: Sourav Mishra from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I have written earlier on the Stop Loud and Excessive Exhaust Systems, New York State...
If we could only see the damage caused by noise
Photo credit: Tanya Gupta from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My noise colleague and coauthor Jan Mayes has an insightful article in the current issue of Tinnitus Today, the quarterly magazine of the American Tinnitus Association. As Jan’s lead...
Working together for a quiet transition
Training session on Mean Green mower, courtesy of the American Green Zone Alliance by Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, President, Quiet Communities Inc. With our collaborator, the American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA), Quiet Communities works to help transition municipalities,...
Does listening to music improve our lives?
Photo credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Does listening to music improve our lives? A lot of people listen to music, and music makes a lot of people happy, but does it really improve our lives? Based on a systematic...
This is National Public Health Week
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Every year the American Public Health Association celebrates National Public Health Week. The theme this year is “Public Health is Where You Are.” This year The Quiet Coalition was excited about the APHA’s revised policy...