Photo credit: Bayu jefri by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition and its parent organization Quiet Communities, Inc. are in the current issue of Hearing Health Magazine, published by the Hearing Health Foundation. On page 14, Quiet...
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The sound of injustice
Photo credit: Lucas Pezeta by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Acoustic ecologists at Colorado State University published a study in which they found that there is greater...
Dementia risk linked to speech-in-noise difficulty
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website recently reported on research published in 2021 the shows a correlation between speech-in-noise difficulty and risk for developing dementia. Speech-in-noise...
Upcoming noise symposium in California
Photo credit: Arlen, licensed under CC BY 2.0 DEED by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The final program has been announced for the annual UC Davis Aviation Noise & Emissions Symposium. In 2024, the symposium will take place in Palm Springs, California...
Hearing aids reduce mortality
Photo credit: PxHere, licensed under CC0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent study in The Lancet shows that people with hearing loss who used hearing aids had dramatically reduced mortality. This research is now getting a wealth of media attention....
How blind people process the sound of movement
Photo credit: Yan Krukau by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This fascinating report on The Conversation website by two researchers at the University of Washington discusses their recent research that studies how blind people process the sound of movement....
Noise disrupts sleep, and that’s bad for health
Photo credit: Ivan Oboleninov by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a recently-published editorial, Mathias Basner, one of the world’s leading experts on the effects of noise on sleep, discusses how noise disrupting sleep leads to long-term health...
Noisy holiday toys are no gift to a child’s hearing
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition US News and World Report correctly informs readers that noisy holiday toys are no gift to a child’s hearing. Reporter Dennis Thompson covers a news release from the American Academy of...
Shipping noise interrupts whales’ communication
Photo credit: Artem Podrez by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Over 40 years ago, I conducted two studies that examined the impacts of train noise on children’s reading...