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Photo credit: sl wong by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Reuters reported last month that the Federal Food and Drug Administration is seeking to lower sodium levels in processed food. This effort is based on recent research showing that cutting salt intake...
Photo credit: George Morina by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I have long thought that rational evidence-based public policies affecting human behavior lead to better health outcomes, although sometimes the evidence that these policies work is hard to...
Photo credit: Wendy Wei by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I hope that all the music-lovers who attended Lollapalooza last week brought their earplugs. Otolaryngologist Dr. Sreek Cherukuri's offered this advice in the suburban Chicago publication, the...
Photo credit: Lukas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Hearing Review recently reported on research done at the University of Maryland showing that a region of the brain called the orbitofrontal cortex plays an important role in hearing and learning....
Photo credit: Kaique Rocha by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Hearing Review recently reported on research about improving sound barriers to reduce traffic noise pollution. The article reported on original research done in China and published open...
Photo credit: Dmitry Zvolskiy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition At the May 2024 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Ottawa, Canada, held in conjunction with the Canadian Acoustical Association, a paper was presented about reducing noise levels...
Photo credit: Julie Viken by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cochlear synaptopathy is damage to the nerve connections between the basic sensory organs of hearing, the cochlear hair cells, and the auditory nerve. Cochlear synaptopathy is thought to be the...
Photo credit: Osvaldo Coelho Jr. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The scientific journal Nature recently published a genome-wide association study (GWAS) based on the UK Biobank, showing a polygenic architecture of speech-in-noise deficits in individuals...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Glasgow Times in Scotland reported that police officers in Edinburgh are prepared to launch legal claims after developing hearing loss and tinnitus from fireworks on Bonfire Night. I googled...