Photo credit: Nick Wehrli from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Kamyar Razavi and Kayla McLean affirmatively state In their Canadian Global News article that...
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Transportation noise exposure correlated with heart attacks
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In research to be presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 71st Scientific Session, from April 2-4, 2022, researchers from Rutgers University found that transportation noise exposure may account for 5% of heart...
Hearing loss associated with less physical activity
Photo credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new study based on data collected by the National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey found that hearing loss is associated with less physical activity. NHANES is a...
A natural experiment about aircraft noise
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Brittanica website defines a natural experiment as an: [O]bservational study in which an event or a situation that allows for the random or seemingly random assignment of study subjects to different groups is...
Audiologist uses Tik-Tok to promote hearing health
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on Entrepreneur.com discusses Baltimore audiologist Dr. Emily Taylor. Dr. Taylor became a Tik-Tok star with her catchy nom de plume, Dr Ear Wax, and uses Tik-Tok...
UN says urban noise is a problem
Image: United Nations Environment Programme (2022). Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches – Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The United Nations Environmental Program has released its Frontiers 2022 report,...
Utah legislator wants to cut down noise pollution
Photo credit: ND-Photo.nl licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Jamie McGriff, KUTV, reports that a Utah legislator wants to cut down noise...
Noise bugs bugs
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m cleaning up my study and came across last summer’s issue of Acoustics Today, which had a fascinating article by Maggie Raboin, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, with the somewhat dry title...
UECNA: An international organization protecting the health of people worldwide
Photo credit: Thiago Matos from Pexels John Stewart is the lead author of Why Noise Matters (with Arline L. Bronzaft as contributing co-author) and is recognized as a long-term UK advocate to lessen noise pollution, especially aircraft noise. With the formation of...









