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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: Min An by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent report on the Medscape website is headlined: "Almost 50% of Global Dementia Cases May Be Preventable." Reporter Megan Brooks ably summarizes the latest report from the U.K.’s Lancet...
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Healthy, published by Readers Digest, recently put out an article titled “Earbuds vs. headphones: Ear doctors reveal which is better for you.” The article discusses things like bacteria...
Photo credit: Bri Schneiter by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I developed tinnitus and hyperacusis after a one-time exposure to loud noise at a New Year’s Eve party at the end of 2017 and became a noise activist in December of 2014, trying to make the...
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...
Photo credit: Annushka Ahuja by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A report from MSN discusses recent research from Harvard University and the affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary that links hidden hearing loss to tinnitus. Here is the actual...
Photo credit: Daniel Fink by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition While I was cleaning my house recently, I came across these three no-smoking buttons from the early 1970s. I was a militant no-smoking advocate, and I wore the button on the right on my doctor’s...
Photo credit: Ono Kosuki by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earlier this month, the Mayo Clinic Health System addressed the dangers of earbud and headphone use by young people. My only quibble with the article is that it states that “any sound at or above...