Photo credit: ICBEN by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The standard definition of noise, adopted almost 100 years ago in the early days of acoustic science, is: "noise is unwanted sound." There are at least three problems with...
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Even slight traffic noise impacts work performance
Photo credit: Francesco Ungaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earth.com reports that even slight traffic noise impacts work performance. That’s probably an overstatement — the study reported on by staff writer Andrei Ionesco did not actually...
Loud noises are bad for your health
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Healthline has an excellent article about the dangers of noise for health. In addition to causing hearing loss, tinnitus, and hyperacusis, loud noise has non-auditory health effects,...
Hardening of the arteries associated with hearing loss
Photo credit: LadyofHats, Mariana Ruiz Villarreal, has released this image into the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition An article just posted online by JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery reports that carotid artery atherosclerosis...
Scientists identify proteins that restore hearing
Photo credit: Oregon State University licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have identified a unique set of proteins that restore hearing. Unfortunately, the proteins were discovered...
Walking more or faster might prevent dementia
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...
Boston researchers awarded $12.5M NIH grant for hidden hearing loss research
Photo credit: Sepehr Ehsani licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This press release from Boston’s Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary reports on the award of a large NIH grant to Sharon Kujawa, PhD, Charles Liberman, PhD, and...
Loud noise causes fluid buildup in the inner ear
Photo credit: Blausen.com staff (2014), "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014," licensed under CC BY 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Loud noise exposure, such as at a rock concert or after using a noisy appliance or power tool, causes temporary...
“Of Sound Mind”
Image courtesy of MIT Press by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The phrase “of sound mind” is in the New Testament, but it came to have the legal meaning of "that state of a person’s mind which is adequate to reason and comes to a judgment upon ordinary...