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Photo courtesy of Nuheara by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Buffalo News reprinted a New York Times article about new hearing aids, including over-the-counter ones, and how younger adults are needing and using hearing aids rather than older adults....
Photo credit: Rachel Claire by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Washington Post’s restaurant critic, Tom Sietsema, has added decibel measurements to his restaurant reviews. This is the first time I have seen an actual sound pressure level measurement in...
Photo credit: David McElwee by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Here I am writing again about noise leading to a violent act. In this case, an Oakland, California resident...
Photo credit: Markus Winkler by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Associated Press and other media recently covered the CDC’s report that the U.S. adult cigarette smoking rate hit a new all-time low of only 11%. That’s a decrease from 42% in the...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We are merely forwarding an email from our UK noise colleague John Stewart about the Summer 2023 newsletter of the UK Noise Association. Among the items covered are the Noise Association’s James...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I had forgotten that May is Better Hearing and Speech Month until a mailing arrived on May 1 from a local hearing aid center. As I have written before in The Quiet Coalition’s blog posts, I’m not a big believer in special...
Photo credit: Shirley de Jong licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies I am often asked by people impacted by aircraft noise when their local...
Photo credit: Cbaile19 dedicated this photo to the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Today reports that bans on gas-powered leaf blowers and gas-powered lawn mowers are beginning to spread nationwide. Noise from gas leaf blowers has been...
This photo by Chuck Kardous (NIOSH) is in the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of this blog post is also the title of my latest publication. As I have often told my noise colleagues when they have tried to get me to write...