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...
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Personal audio system use is bad for your ears
Photo credit: Zen Chung from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On June 10, our noise colleague Jan Mayes presented a paper at the 180th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America titled “Personal Audio System Use Can Harm Auditory Health." I was...
Dr. Daniel Fink presented at ASA on secondhand noise
Dr. Daniel Fink presented a poster at the ASA’s December meeting on secondhand noise. A manuscript based on his poster will be submitted to one of ASA’s scientific journals.
Acoustic vehicle alerts are a problem
The Quiet Coalition’s Jeanine Botta presented a paper on horn-based alerts and their impact on sleep at the ASA’s 177th meeting in May. Click to learn more about how these alerts disrupt sleep and concentration.
The wrong answer to the restaurant noise problem
Expensive headphones to block restaurant noise is the wrong answer to a persistent problem. The right answer is to make restaurants quieter!