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...
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Earbud use can cause noise-induced hearing loss
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...
Working with power tools? You need hearing protection.
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...
How loud is too loud?
Photo credit: Mark Stebnicki by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition How loud is too loud? That’s the question asked in the Tyler Morning Telegraph in an article written by Claudann Jones from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. We city dwellers...
Prince Louis drew attention covering his ears during Jubilee
Photo credit: Torsten Reimer licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Queen Elizabeth recently celebrated 70 years as England’s monarch with four days of celebrations in London. The image from those events that might have gotten the...
Protecting infants’ and children’s hearing
Photo credit: Burst, released under Creative Commons Zero License by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition With coauthor Sophie Balk, we are proud to announce the publication of our latest article in The Hearing Journal on protecting infants' and children's...
How to protect your hearing as a live musician
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition HypeBot discusses what musicians can do to protect their hearing. Ron Hart, Spotify for Artists, spoke with some musicians and also with New York-based otolaryngologist Dr. Lloyd Loft, who...
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As I’ve written before, I don’t like special days or months. I think that if something is important, it should be thought about all the time, not just on a special day or month. But I’ve also acknowledged that these...
Hearing Health Foundation launches video for World Hearing Day
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our friends at Hearing Health Foundation let us know that in celebration of World Hearing Day yesterday they launched a new 60-second video about the risks of hearing loss from noise exposure, with advice about how to...