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Photo credit: Toni Ferreira by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Modern life is too loud. Everyday noise exposure can cause noise-induced hearing loss, the only type of hearing loss that is entirely preventable. Many noise exposures are involuntary — the...
Photo credit: Ivan Samkov by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN published a piece last month by Susannah Hills, a pediatric airway surgeon and vice chair of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in...
Photo credit: Helena Lopes by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "What is hidden hearing loss and how to tell if you have it?" is the title of this well-written article by reporter Kacie Goff on the CNET site. I’m glad this little-known but quite common...
Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The July 6, 2023, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery includes an article from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of...
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Last month, the University of Rochester reported on research done at its Center for Translational Neuromedicine and at the University of Copenhagen that may provide a new way to deliver...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Yishane Lee at Hearing Health Foundation was kind enough to let us know about this blog post on the HHF website. In it, Lee discusses recent research about hearing loss and dementia. In reading the...
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...
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...
Photo credit: Sofia Shultz by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I have written about the relationship between hearing loss and cognitive impairment before and reported on evidence that strongly suggests that improving hearing for older people may delay or...