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Photo credit: Kindel Media by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Researcher Frank Lin, MD PhD, may have been the first to describe an association between hearing loss and dementia in older people in 2011 and he has continued his research on this topic. One of...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition UECNA, the European Union Against Aircraft Nuisances, sent a notice about its next webinar on Thursday, February 2, 2023, 7 p.m. Central European Time. That’s 1 p.m. in New York City and 10 a.m. in...
Photo credit: Xavier Lubeigt licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies According to the article by Tom Andrews, the Santa Fe City Council has...
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...