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Photo credit: Steevven1 licensed under CC BY 2.5 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition The Stop Loud and Excessive Exhaust Pollution Act was passed by the New York State legislature and will soon be sent to...
Photo credit: by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Acoustical Society of America meeting took place from June 8-10 this year. At a special session on non-occupational noise exposure and hearing loss, my noise colleague Jan Mayes presented one paper and I...
Image credit: ICBEN by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition When I was a child, one of the standard assignments in September was to write an essay about what we did during the summer. This blog post is a faint echo of that, reporting on my experience attending...
Photo credit: Marcelo Chagas from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our friends at Hearing Health Foundation, the nation’s largest nonprofit funder of hearing research, have informed us about their new public advertising campaign to let...
Photo credit: Vova Krasilnikov from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times in a recent column on New York City mayor’s race notes that “quality-of-life issues take on growing...
Photo credit: Jaybird licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent report in Nature Aging is behind a paywall, so I am using this article about the report in Neuroscience News to discuss it. The study showed that short term...
by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Over the many years I have been involved with trying to lower the decibel level in our world, and many of my writings have focused on the growing din in urban communities....
This photo by Airman 1st Class Anna Nolte is in the public domain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m a big advocate for preventing illness rather than treating it. Prevention is almost always both better and cheaper than treatment, which in turn is...
Photo credit: Thomas Good licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Shant Shahrigian’s article on New York City mayoral candidate Scott Stringer's recent press conference to discuss city...