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Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The BBC recently ran an article by health reporter James Gallagher covering the myriad ways in which excessive noise can damage our well-being. Gallagher was the reporter on the BBC News World...
Photo credit: lil artsy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The February 2025 issue of Frontiers in Public Health has an article by Chinese researchers reporting a correlation between noise exposure, occupational hearing loss and cognitive impairment. The...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Stanford Medicine Children’s Health blog, Healthier, Happy Lives, recently discussed preventing hearing loss in children on the occasion of World Hearing Day. World Hearing Day is on March 3 and...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a New York Times article titled "35 Health Tips Experts Swear By," Dr. Frank Lin, Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, gave this tip: “I make...
Photo credit: Lukas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Fierce Biotech website reported that the biotech company Regeneron has a new gene therapy that restored hearing in 11 of 12 children born with a rare congenital genetic form of deafness. The...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people’s hearing problems? That’s the headline of a recent BBC article. The BBC reports that five audiology departments have reported an...
Photo credit: Francesco Ungaro by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The World Health Organization celebrates World Hearing Day on March 3. The numeral "3" sort of looks like an ear, which is why this day was selected. This year’s World Hearing Day theme is:...
Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I often write: “If it sounds loud, it’s too loud and your auditory health* is at risk. Turn down the volume, leave the noisy environment or use hearing protection.” Hearing protection...
Photo credit: Magda Ehlers by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Beth Griffin at the American Tinnitus Association let us know that this week is Tinnitus Awareness Week. The ATA arranged a series of recorded lectures to run all week, and a schedule is...