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Photo credit: Tom Fisk by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Years before I was a co-author of the book “Why Noise Matters,” of which John Stewart is the lead author, I had...
Photo credit: Chris-Håvard Berge licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Well, the headline of this blog post is admittedly misleading. Road traffic noise can travel far, especially horns and exhaust noise from trucks and illegally...
Photo courtesy of Dr. Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I was contacted last Fall by Yishane Lee, the editor of Hearing Health Magazine, the well-regarded quarterly publication of Hearing Health Foundation, to see if I would write 500 words...
Photo credit: Deane Bayas by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In earlier posts I told readers that cities in the U.S., Canada and Europe were carrying out pilot tests on...
Photo credit: Jack Sparrow by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I don’t necessarily believe the old adage that “[t]here’s a silver lining to every cloud,” but this story from the World Hearing Day site shows that, at least for some, there was indeed a silver...
Photo credit: Rafael Cosquiere by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies As a result of my long-term research, writings and activism to reduce noise pollution and enhance quiet...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition World Hearing Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization, is rapidly approaching. Each year WHO chooses a theme for World Hearing Day. This year’s theme is “Ear and hearing care for all! Let’s make it a reality.”...
Photo credit: Alex Urezkov by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article on Livestrong lists six situations when audiologists always wear earplugs: attending concerts or sports events, in bars or noisy restaurants, when doing lawn work, when there’s...
Photo credit: Jeremy Bishop by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In earlier posts I have written about human-made noises not only adversely impacting the well-being of...