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Photo credit: nappy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Dallas Morning News recently ran an article by Christopher Elliott about travel noise. Elliott notes that travel is noisy, both in airplanes but also when staying in hotels or walking along city...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a New York Times article titled "35 Health Tips Experts Swear By," Dr. Frank Lin, Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, gave this tip: “I make...
Photo credit: Kaique Rocha by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition This Bloomberg article titled: "A Loud Warning from the Past about Living with Cars" covers a lot of ground, and leaves much to think about. Bloomberg contributor and vehicle expert...
Photo credit: Lukas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Fierce Biotech website reported that the biotech company Regeneron has a new gene therapy that restored hearing in 11 of 12 children born with a rare congenital genetic form of deafness. The...
Photo credit: Tima Miroshnichenko by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Call centers can be loud with employees talking to customers, HVAC noise and the hum of fluorescent lights. The Destination CRM website reports that noise-canceling systems using...
Photo credit: fauxels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A report from Spectrum News 1 in Rochester, New York discusses how researchers at the University of Rochester* are studying how the brain cuts through noise to understand conversation. Edmund Lalor,...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people’s hearing problems? That’s the headline of a recent BBC article. The BBC reports that five audiology departments have reported an...
Photo credit: Quiet Communities Staff by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Every day, people are affected by harmful noise from leaf blowers, vehicles with noisy mufflers, aircraft and data centers located too close to residential neighborhoods. The list...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies The U.S. Military does not just impose noise from its military jets on American towns, as many of our blog posts...