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...
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Football teams adapt again to noisy crowds
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...
How to prevent hearing loss while flying
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...
3-year olds should not be using headphones
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...
Teaching children to protect their hearing
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...
More on the link between dementia and hearing loss
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...
Combination of silence and sound may preserve hearing
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...
Purple marks Disability Rights
Image courtesy of #WeThe15 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On August 19, more than 125 monuments around the world were bathed in purple light to recognize the worlds’ 1.2 billion people living with disabilities. This article from NPR states that at...
Tinnitus associated with poor sleep and anxiety
Photo credit: cottonbro from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from the Netherlands, published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, found an association between tinnitus and anxiety and poor sleep quality. The association did...