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Photo credit: Kindel Media by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Researcher Frank Lin, MD PhD, may have been the first to describe an association between hearing loss and dementia in older people in 2011 and he has continued his research on this topic. One of...
Photo credit: Xavier Lubeigt licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies According to the article by Tom Andrews, the Santa Fe City Council has...
Photo credit: Kae Yen Wong licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The December 20, 2022, issue of JAMA contained three important articles about personal sound amplification products. Since these may be behind the JAMA paywall, you...
Photo credit: Robert Sullivan has dedicated this photo to the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition At the recent Acoustical Society of America meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, I attended a session on measuring aircraft noise. Several of the...
Photo credit: Nicholas Espinosa by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In the 1980s and 1990s, my daughter and her family and other close relatives lived in the Los Angeles...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times Ask Well column recently covered hidden hearing loss, with the title, “Can’t hear conversations in a crowd? It could be hidden hearing loss.” An accessible if slightly more...
Photo credit: Cameron Casey by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of this site who are familiar with attempts to reduce helicopter noise, especially those who are...
Photo credit: Kindel Media by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 2020 Weuve et al. reported an association between community noise exposure and cognitive impairment including dementia. The paper didn’t state that noise caused dementia, only that there was...
Photo credit: ILOVESwitzerland by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to this report on Le News, Switzerland is set to introduce stiffer penalties for noisy drivers. Well, actually penalties for drivers of noisy vehicles, including cars and...