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Photo credit: PhotoMIX Company by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article on GadgetsToUse discusses how to get high noise level alerts on a smartphone. It turns out that there are several ways to do this, whether you have an iPhone or an Android. And...
Photo credit: Daniel Frese by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Why am I writing about preventing dementia on a blog site dedicated to noise? Please let me explain. Dementia is common in older people, increasing with age. It is something everyone fears. And...
Image credit: CDC by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As this link from CDC tells us, October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. Noise causes hearing loss by damaging delicate cochlear structures. CDC also states that noise-induced hearing loss is the...
Photo credit: Thirdman by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This "Ask Well" column in The New York Times tries to answer the question, “Are earbuds damaging my hearing?” To me, the answer is clear: "Yes!” I am quoted extensively in the column, which appeared...
Photo credit: Wellington Cunha by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This piece from television station WFAA, Dallas, Texas, discusses the station’s 1974 coverage of noise in downtown Dallas. Back then, the danger to the public’s auditory health was from...
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from SciTechDaily has the same title as my title for this blog post, but without the question mark I added. Pardon my skepticism, but I’ll wait until the study described is...
Photo credit: alasam licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition GM Today, a website serving Greater Milwaukee, posted this piece from the Mayo Clinic about reducing risk of hearing loss, although “reducing the risk of noise-induced...
Photo credit: Michael Burrows by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in the Chattanooga Pulse emphasizes the fact that earbud use can cause noise-induced hearing loss. To those of us who follow--and sometimes contribute to--the literature on...
Photo credit: Bidvine by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Home repair and improvement expert Bob Vila--you may remember him from the PBS show, “This Old House”--recently posted this article about using hearing protection when using power tools. I’m glad to...