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Photo credit: Erald Mecani licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article from LiveStrong.com lists eight habits that are bad for brain health. Number 3 is listening to loud music. The article notes: 3. Listening to Loud Music...
Photo credit: Gustavo Fring from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition When I sent one of my noise colleagues a draft post about the Discover article on how human noise overwhelms natural sea soundscapes for comment and correction, mentioning quiet...
Photo credit: Wendy Wei from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist A recent article in the IRN Post warns of hearing difficulties caused by loud music exposure at concerts. It starts off well by identifying the 70 dB noise limit. But the discussion switches to ≥85...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’ve written in the past about noise in stadiums and arenas where college and professional sports are played because they are invariably too noisy. The world record for stadium noise, according to Guinness, was set at a...
Photo credit: Sourav Mishra from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article by Travel Awaits discusses tips on preventing hearing loss while flying. It’s a little biased towards the Widex hearing aid brand, but still contains some useful...
Photo credit: Alper Tecer licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist Would you buy headphones so a 3-year old could start personal listening? A Swedish company released news to Cision PR Newswire that it is selling “safe” 85 dB limit headphones...
Photo credit: Max Fischer from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition With the World Health Organization announcing that “over one billion young adults are at risk of permanent hearing loss due to unsafe...
Photo credit: Kindel Media from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On The Conversation, Thomas Littlejohns, an epidemiologist at Oxford, discusses his recent scientific publication about the link between hearing loss and dementia. This relationship...
Photo credit: Arina Krasnikova from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from the University of Rochester Medical Center describes research showing that in a mouse model, a combination of silence and broadband sounds (containing sounds at...