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“A quieter world will be a better and healthier world for all.”
– Quiet Coalition Founder and Chair Dr. Daniel Fink
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Congress acknowledges noise from space launches
Photo credit: SpaceX by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Congress has acknowledged the adverse impacts of noise on human health by passing legislation that recognizes the...
An animal model for detecting hearing loss?
Photo credit: Polina Tankilevitch by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Direct website reported on an article that covers a possible early detection tool for age-related hearing loss. In a special issue on bioinformatics and computational biology,...
UECNA continues to cover noise issues
Photo credit: SevenStorm JUHASZIMRUS by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies John Stewart is the president of the European Union Against Aircraft Noise (UECNA). He has been a...
Diabetes prevalence in the U.S. increased
Photo credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this past fall that the prevalence of diabetes in adults in the United States increased from about 8% to almost 16% from 2000 to...
One billion young people at risk of hearing loss
Photo credit: Afta Putta Gunawan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cincinnati television station WKRC reports that a "new" study published in BMJ Global Health shows that more than one billion young people are at risk of noise-induced hearing loss from...
North Korea blaring sound across the border
Photo credit: Lukas Kindl by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In the past, the South Korean village of Dangsan was considered a quiet, rural area. But not today. Just over...
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“I am seeing a lot more interest and growing awareness about the adverse impacts of noise on health and I hope this will lead to policies that will be focused on noise abatement… Organizations such as Quiet Communities have made an impact on educating people to the dangers of noise and suggesting ways that we can reduce noise pollution.”
– Arline Bronzaft, PhD