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This photo is in the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, recently treated for a stroke and depression, was fitted with hearing aids due to sensorineural hearing loss. The...
Image courtesy of the American Public Health Association by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Each year the American Public Health Association sponsors National Public Health Week, this year from April 3-9. Public health deals with the health of populations,...
Photo credit: Eva Bronzini by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Apparently, humans and animals are not the only living things that make sounds. Katie Hunt, CNN SPACE+...
Photo credit: Liza Summer by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The BBC reports on a study done by researchers at King’s College London and the University of Oxford showing that about 1 in 5 people in the UK suffer from misophonia. What is misophonia? It is a...
Photo credit: Kat Wilcox by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The Quiet Coalition readers are well aware of the harmful effects of noise on our mental and physical health....
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Healthline has an excellent article about the dangers of noise for health. In addition to causing hearing loss, tinnitus, and hyperacusis, loud noise has non-auditory health effects,...
Photo credit: Oregon State University licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in the current issue of Acoustics Today, a publication of the Acoustical Society of America, discusses how the zebrafish, a freshwater minnow...
Photo credit: Marqués de la Force 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 As I say often, noise does not discriminate-–it can affect everyone:...
Photo credit: Yahoo Accessibility Lab licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition MedPage Today reports on an important new paper in JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery showing that cognitive function improved after cochlear...