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Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our colleague, pioneering noise researcher Dr. Arline Bronzaft, wrote a wonderful essay in the newsletter of the Holy Trinity Church, located in the Inwood and Washington Heights...
Photo credit: SHVETS production by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "Why do I hear but not understand?" That is the title of one of the references in a recent article in Scientific Reports, published by the Nature publishing group in the United Kingdom. The...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana recently ran a story about hearing loss in children. As audiologist Brian Fligor notes, noise exposure from activities children and teens often engage in,...
Photo credit: Quốc Bảo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Nature (UK) publication Scientific Reports published a paper based on research done in Germany that surveyed about 400 amateur musicians and 400 professional musicians. A number of studies cited...
Photo credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this past fall that the prevalence of diabetes in adults in the United States increased from about 8% to almost 16% from 2000 to...
Photo credit: Afta Putta Gunawan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cincinnati television station WKRC reports that a "new" study published in BMJ Global Health shows that more than one billion young people are at risk of noise-induced hearing loss from...
Photo credit: Lukas Kindl by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In the past, the South Korean village of Dangsan was considered a quiet, rural area. But not today. Just over...
Photo credit: nicollazzi xiong by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition A persistent myth about noise is that only affluent people value quiet, and want to ruin the fun for everyone else. When I saw the title in National Geographic, "How silence became...
Photo credit: energepic.com by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to a recent report in BMJ Psychology, noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) affects job performance and work-related quality of life. The study showed that NIHL was negatively associated...