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Photo credit: Allan Mas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition An interesting story in Science Daily reports that sound is a primary issue in the lives of skateboarders. Who knew? The story is based on research done at the University of Exeter in the United...
Photo credit: Magda Ehlers by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Beth Griffin at the American Tinnitus Association let us know that this week is Tinnitus Awareness Week. The ATA arranged a series of recorded lectures to run all week, and a schedule is...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The EuroWeekly site reports that noise is a problem on Spain’s Costa del Sol. Reporter Adam Woodward writes that noise from vehicle exhausts and other sources is a problem in Benalmadena’s Arroyo de...
Photo credit: Frank Schrader by Kathleen Romito, MD, member, Quiet Communities Scientific Advisory Council The City of Carmel-By-The-Sea, California recently launched a three-month trial to address pickleball noise complaints by limiting play to three days a week...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We can close our eyes and fall asleep on a sunny beach after lunch, but we cannot close our ears. Hearing evolved eons ago to help animals either find food or avoid being eaten, and we can hear even...
Photo credit: Tima Miroshnichenko by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A 2020 study from the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders found that having fired 1,000 rounds or more was associated with hearing loss in American adults....
Photo credit: Eugenia Sol by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies A report by the European Court of Auditors states that noise impacts have largely been ignored by the member...
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...