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Photo credit: Aashish Rai by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Brett Smiley, the Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, wants to crack down on noise. His efforts have drawn media attention in The New York Times and the local paper, the Providence Journal. Noise...
Photo credit: Dmitry Zvolskiy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition At the May 2024 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Ottawa, Canada, held in conjunction with the Canadian Acoustical Association, a paper was presented about reducing noise levels...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Former Boston Herald Sunday Magazine gardening columnist Catherine Greenleaf moved to Vermont some years ago, became interested in birds and now records the Birdhugger podcast twice a month. She...
Photo credit: Julie Viken by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cochlear synaptopathy is damage to the nerve connections between the basic sensory organs of hearing, the cochlear hair cells, and the auditory nerve. Cochlear synaptopathy is thought to be the...
Photo credit: Diva Plavalaguna by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to a report in The Hearing Review, hearing aids slow cognitive decline in adults with mild cognitive impairment. The report is based on a presentation by UCLA researchers at the...
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Healthy, published by Readers Digest, recently put out an article titled “Earbuds vs. headphones: Ear doctors reveal which is better for you.” The article discusses things like bacteria...
Photo credit: Bri Schneiter by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I developed tinnitus and hyperacusis after a one-time exposure to loud noise at a New Year’s Eve party at the end of 2017 and became a noise activist in December of 2014, trying to make the...
Photo credit: Osvaldo Coelho Jr. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The scientific journal Nature recently published a genome-wide association study (GWAS) based on the UK Biobank, showing a polygenic architecture of speech-in-noise deficits in individuals...
Photo credit: Ibrahim Boran by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a recent issue of the Boulder Weekly, restaurant critic John Lehndorff asks, “Are restaurants too loud?” Of course, you know the answer as well as I do. Yes, they are. Lehndorff describes...