Photo credit: Chona Kasinger for Disabled and Here, licensed by CC BY 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise colleague Yishane Lee at Hearing Health Foundation was kind enough to let me know about this blog post and gave me permission to write...
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Apple Hearing Study suggests many Americans are exposed to too much noise
Photo credit: picjumbo.com by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to this story on the CNET website, the Apple Hearing Study suggests that many Americans are exposed to too much noise. The research uses recordings of sound pressure levels from...
UAB Hospital goes electric with ground maintenance
Photo credit: Mx. Granger, licensed by Creative Commons CC 1.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA) recently reported that the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital became the first hospital in...
Even slight traffic noise impacts work performance
Photo credit: Francesco Ungaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earth.com reports that even slight traffic noise impacts work performance. That’s probably an overstatement — the study reported on by staff writer Andrei Ionesco did not actually...
Congresswoman Meng seeks funding for ONAC
Photo credit: Thomas Altfather Good. Licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Anti-noise groups, especially...
How the brain decodes speech in noisy rooms
Photo credit: Maurício Mascaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Neuroscience News reported on research published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology that looked into how the brain treats speech in a crowded room, depending on how easy that...
Everyday household noise can take a toll on dogs
Photo credit: Sergio Souza by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Many readers of our posts are familiar with dog barking as a noise source, though not a major one. But...
Aviation noise and emissions presentation now available
Photo credit: Allan So by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s parent organization, Quiet Communities, Inc., has announced the availability of a new presentation, Aircraft Noise and Emissions: Health and Environmental Impacts: This...
Is anyone listening? Can anyone hear me?
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition When you speak in person, you know if people are paying attention to what you are saying. If you are speaking on a Zoom meeting, that isn’t as clear. And if your write an article that is...









