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by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As I’ve written before, I don’t like special days or months. I think that if something is important, it should be thought about all the time, not just on a special day or month. But I’ve also acknowledged that these...
Photo credit: Soulful Pizza by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition does not endorse products or manufacturers and has no commercial or other relationships with any company or other organization, helping guarantee our independence. So I...
Photo credit: Sound On from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times’ Wirecutter published an article about headphones used in schools. Wirecutter evaluates products independently but does get commissions if products mentioned are...
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...
Photo credit: cottonbro from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The UK’s Eureka magazine reports that a new device is targeting the cocktail party noise problem. What is the cocktail party noise problem? Also known as the Lombard Effect, after...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our friends at Hearing Health Foundation let us know that in celebration of World Hearing Day yesterday they launched a new 60-second video about the risks of hearing loss from noise exposure, with advice about how to...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition March 3 is World Hearing Day. For several years now, the World Health Organization has celebrated World Hearing Day, each year with a special theme. This year’s theme is one near and dear to my heart: Prevention of...
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...
Photo by Daniel Fink, MD by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Economists say that an informed consumer is a better consumer although it turns out that most consumers do a bad job of making what would appear to be rational decisions. A whole new field,...