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Photo credit: Jonas Von Werne from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist A recent article is a good reminder that fireworks can damage hearing. Fireworks are loud explosive blasts of sound that can cause permanent hearing loss, tinnitus or ringing in the ears, and...
Photo credit: Kaique Rocha from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from television station WLKY in Louisville, Kentucky correctly warns that noise from fireworks can cause permanent hearing loss. The report doesn’t explicitly state this,...
Photo credit: Steevven1 licensed under CC BY 2.5 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition The Stop Loud and Excessive Exhaust Pollution Act was passed by the New York State legislature and will soon be sent to...
Photo credit: One Shot from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Kudos to the zoning enforcement authorities in Miami Beach for making a hotel turn down the volume. According to the Miami Herald, a new hotel with celebrity owners and developers...
Photo credit: Kevin Baird licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Noise complaints centering on loud speakers in parked autos along New York City streets has been a traditional New...
Photo credit: by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Acoustical Society of America meeting took place from June 8-10 this year. At a special session on non-occupational noise exposure and hearing loss, my noise colleague Jan Mayes presented one paper and I...
Photo credit: Melvin Grounds has dedicated this photo to the public domain by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition As he did in June 2020, Mayor de Blasio has again announced a task force to address the “ongoing...
Image credit: ICBEN by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition When I was a child, one of the standard assignments in September was to write an essay about what we did during the summer. This blog post is a faint echo of that, reporting on my experience attending...
Photo credit: Max Fischer from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Over forty years ago I conducted a study that demonstrated that children in classrooms located near elevated subway tracks in Upper...