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Photo credit: Tembela Bohle by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Fox News reporter Melissa Rudy wrote an excellent piece on tinnitus. However, I have a few minor quibbles with what she wrote, and what audiologist Donald Troast said. But the main thrust of...
Photo credit: Yury Kim by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is occupational noise exposure associated with arthritis? A new report in BMC Public Health suggests that it might be. The authors used data collected by the CDC's National Health and Nutrition...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new report in The Lancet: Regional Health Americas found that in the United States, rural residents had worse hearing than urban residents. The goal of the research was to create estimates of...
Photo credit: Sahil prajapati by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition March 3 is World Hearing Day, established by the World Health Organization in 2007 to draw attention to hearing and the care of people with auditory difficulties. Each year, WHO establishes a...
Photo credit: Denniz Futalan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is the most common type of hearing loss in the United States. NIHL affects about 25% of American adults age 20-69, most without significant occupational noise...
Photo credit: Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website and multiple other news sources are reporting that an 11 year old boy born with congenital deafness is now able to hear, thanks to new gene therapy. The...
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Tinnitus, commonly called ringing in the ears, is technically the perception of sound when there is no external sound stimulus. Tinnitus can be perceived as a high-pitched whistling sound,...
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...
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....