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Photo credit: Kae Yen Wong licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The December 20, 2022, issue of JAMA contained three important articles about personal sound amplification products. Since these may be behind the JAMA paywall, you...
Photo credit: Robert Sullivan has dedicated this photo to the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition At the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, I attended a session on measuring aircraft noise. Several of the...
Photo credit: Francesco Ungaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This opinion piece in the UK’s Guardian emphasizes how bad noise is for plants and animals living in the ocean. As author Karen Bakker, director of the University of British Columbia’s...
Photo credit: Nicholas Espinosa by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In the 1980s and 1990s, my daughter and her family and other close relatives lived in the Los Angeles...
Photo credit: Jerry H. licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article on Bloomberg.com reports on Mumbai’s plans to curb noise pollution, largely coming from the efforts of noise activist Sumaira Abdulali. Mumbai is...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times Ask Well column recently covered hidden hearing loss, with the title, “Can’t hear conversations in a crowd? It could be hidden hearing loss.” An accessible if slightly more...
Photo credit: Pixabay We are taking the week off. Have a peaceful and joyous holiday. See you on January 3rd!
Photo credit: Patrick Pelster licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My wife and I went to Palm Springs, California for a wedding recently. My wife knows that noise bothers me, so she requested a quiet room. She told me the...
Photo credit: Cameron Casey by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of this site who are familiar with attempts to reduce helicopter noise, especially those who are...