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Photo credit: Christina Morillo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Facilities Management Journal website, published out of the United Kingdom, reports that noise is a major deterrent for those returning to in-office work after working from home for a...
Photo credit: Trinity Kubassek by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The website for Noisy Planet, a national public education campaign focused on preventing noise-induced hearing loss in children, retired as of May 1, 2025. The text and illustrations on the...
Photo credit: Guduru Ajay bhargav by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 1996, Nancy Nadler at New York City’s nonprofit Center for Hearing and Communication, working with The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft and others, created and introduced...
Photo credit: Krizjohn Rosales by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise is unwanted and/or harmful sound. It has been known for some years that noise has adverse auditory and non-auditory health effects. These non-auditory adverse effects have been best...
Photo credit: Bri Schneiter by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition April 22 is Earth Day. I didn’t know there was an actual Earth Day organization, or that there was a theme for each Earth Day. This year’s theme is: “Our Power, Our Planet," calling for...
Photo credit: Edoardo Tommasini by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website reported on research suggesting that tapping one’s fingers in a steady rhythm could help one better understand speech in a noisy environment. In the respected...
Photo credit: Bk Aguilar by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m a big fan of NPR, listening to "Morning Edition" or "All Things Considered" when I'm in the car and those programs are on. I missed this report about March Madness noise for babies, but my...
Photo credit: Marcin Jozwiak by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new study published online ahead of print in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Environmental Health Perspectives reports that new research shows that the cumulative risk of...
Photo credit: Anna Shvets by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Scientific Reports, a publication within the UK-based science journal Nature, put out an article about sound in the intensive care unit. I wasn’t surprised to learn that the ICU the researchers...