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Photo credit: Trinity Kubassek by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The website for Noisy Planet, a national public education campaign focused on preventing noise-induced hearing loss in children, retired as of May 1, 2025. The text and illustrations on the...
Photo credit: AS Photography as Pexels We are taking a break this week. See you on Monday, May 5.
Photo credit: Guduru Ajay bhargav by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 1996, Nancy Nadler at New York City’s nonprofit Center for Hearing and Communication, working with The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft and others, created and introduced...
Photo credit: Krizjohn Rosales by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise is unwanted and/or harmful sound. It has been known for some years that noise has adverse auditory and non-auditory health effects. These non-auditory adverse effects have been best...
Photo credit: Clément Proust by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ student-oriented publication on The Learning Network, offered by The Times to teachers and students, asks, “Is it OK to shush people who are noisy in public?" The subhead...
Photo credit: Bri Schneiter by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition April 22 is Earth Day. I didn’t know there was an actual Earth Day organization, or that there was a theme for each Earth Day. This year’s theme is: “Our Power, Our Planet," calling for...
Photo credit: Edoardo Tommasini by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website reported on research suggesting that tapping one’s fingers in a steady rhythm could help one better understand speech in a noisy environment. In the respected...
Photo credit: NAUSHIL | SKYHAWK. ASIA by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Pascack Press reported that residents of the small township of Washington, New Jersey continue to speak out against “the persistent jet noise that plagues the Pascack Valley."...
Photo credit: Elina Sazonova by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I recently wrote about Paris closing more than 500 streets to vehicular traffic in order to reduce transportation noise. The Washington Post just reported that a beneficial side effect of...