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Photo credit: Afta Putta Gunawan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. As I have written before, I’m ambivalent about special months or days, whether for health topics or even such favorites as Mother’s Day or...
Photo credit: Annushka Ahuja by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A report from MSN discusses recent research from Harvard University and the affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary that links hidden hearing loss to tinnitus. Here is the actual...
Photo credit: Mark Dalton by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition What is the safe noise exposure level to prevent noise-induced hearing loss? That’s the title of my latest article, published on April 18. I argue that this safe noise exposure level may be as...
Photo credit: Paweł L. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition National Public Radio recently reported on a new tinnitus treatment that involves listening to sounds while having the tongue electrically stimulated. This treatment is supposed to reduce tinnitus...
Photo credit: Christina Morillo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The World Health Organization’s Ear and Hearing Care Programme announced its new publication, Hearing Aid Service Delivery Approaches for Low- and Middle-Income Settings. As WHO has...
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: 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: Buro Millennial by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from Science Alert discusses research that auditory damage is linked to tinnitus. Reporter Jess Cockerill writes that tinnitus could be the brain’s way of coping with nerve damage...
Photo credit: Hasan Albari by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Eureka Reports, the online news publication of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, reported that researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary discovered a loss of...