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Photo credit: Bryan Thatcher licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I developed tinnitus and hyperacusis in 2007 after a one-time exposure to loud noise at a New Year’s Eve dinner in a restaurant. As midnight approached, the...
Photo credit: mike krzeszak licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Can wearing hearing aids prevent dementia? That’s a question that doctors have wondered about every since Dr. Frank Lin at Johns Hopkins University reported that...
Photo credit: Kasra Askari by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The idea for this blog post came from the juxtaposition of a recent family wedding where the music after dinner was far too loud, and the Black Friday sales starting the holiday shopping season....
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...