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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...
Photo credit: James Cheney by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Florida Museum is currently closed for renovation, but it posted content online from the Thompson Earth Systems Institute at the University of Florida about noise pollution. The Institute...
Photo credit: Nik from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A letter to the editor in a recent edition of the Vineyard Gazette on Martha’s Vineyard includes a compelling description of the annoyance caused by noisy gas-powered leaf blowers and the...
Photo credit: John Beagle, licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Kathleen Romito, MD, member, Quiet Communities Scientific Advisory Council If you live near a pickleball court, you’ll know exactly what that sound described in the title of this post is, and you’re probably tired...
Photo credit: Riccardo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Guardian has a feature in which a question is posed and the public replies. The paper describes it as, “The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ question on subjects...
Photo credit: Asad Photo Maldives by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition and Abigail Harrison, Editor, Quiet Communities Two townships in New York State have filed a joint lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration alleging that over a million...
Photo credit: Kyle Lui by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNET reports that loud restaurants may endanger the hearing of patrons and workers alike. This is not new information. Restaurant noise has been an issue for years. Research presented at the...