Photo credit: Alex Azabache by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies This article tells us that Representative Dan Beyer’s Cleaner, Quieter Airplanes Act was included in a...
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What can you do about big city noise pollution?
Photo credit: Jose Francisco Fernandez Saura by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article onVurb Wellness discusses what you can do about noise pollution. Unsurprisngly, the Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft, PhD, is cited in the first sentence of the...
More than 1 billion young people at risk of hearing loss
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A new study confirms what the World Health Organization has been saying for some years now: more than 1 billion young people could be at risk of noise-induced hearing loss because of...
Difficulty hearing in a noisy space linked to dementia
Photo credit: Helena Lopes by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies There has been more focus on the importance of hearing lately as evidenced by how much easier it is to get...
14th ICBEN Congress on noise as a public health problem
Photo credit: Dennis Jarvis licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The first Congress of the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise was held in 1973, so this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of that first...
Experts suggest how and why to reduce noise at home
Photo credit: Karl Solano by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition’s Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, who is also founder and president of TQC’s parent organization, Quiet Communities, Inc. https://quietcommunities.org is one of the experts quoted in...
Draft agreement between FAA, helicopter tours threatens Liberty State Park
Photo credit: Robert So by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies That helicopter noise has disrupted the lives of many residents in New York and New Jersey has been underscored...
North Somerset Aims to be the UK’s first “low noise firework county”
Photo credit: Belinda Schindler by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Amid growing evidence that fireworks severely stress wild animals and pets, a pet owner in North Somerset is trying to make her county the UK’s first “low noise firework county.” According...
Americans can now buy hearing aids over the counter
Photo credit: Nicolas Sadoc licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition From October 17, Americans can now buy hearing aids without seeing an audiologist, otolaryngologist, or hearing aid dispenser. Five years after Congress passed a...