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Photo credit: mike krzeszak licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Can wearing hearing aids prevent dementia? That’s a question that doctors have wondered about every since Dr. Frank Lin at Johns Hopkins University reported that...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies After starting out his article by noting that for people living in urban environment silence “is likely only...
Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I was surprised by this article on Healio reporting that orthopedic surgeons risk noise-induced hearing loss in the operating room, but then smiled to myself as I realized I shouldn’t have been...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On December 7, the World Health Organization will sponsor a webinar about World Hearing Day 2023. Each year WHO selects a theme for World Hearing Day, which occurs on March 3 every year. This year’s theme is “Ear and...
Photo credit: David Cossey by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies During the pandemic, I wrote a number of posts on articles that noted how pleased many people were to hear...
Photo credit: Dzenina Lukac by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cities and Memory has announced the launch of Obsolete Sounds, the biggest-ever collection of obsolete and disappearing sounds of the world. As Cities and Memory notes, “[o]bsolete Sounds is...
Photo credit: We are taking the week off. Have a peaceful and joyous holiday. See you on January 3rd!
Photo credit: Kasra Askari by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The idea for this blog post came from the juxtaposition of a recent family wedding where the music after dinner was far too loud, and the Black Friday sales starting the holiday shopping season....
Photo credit: 周 康 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The European Union Against Aircraft Nuisances (UECNA) is sponsoring another webinar about aviation noise, this time a conversation between panelists and participants. I won’t be able to attend because I...