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Photo credit: Genaro Servín by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This coming Monday marks the start National Public Health Week, April 1-7, 2024. I checked the schedule of events, but didn’t see anything about noise. It is important for public health...
Photo credit: Thilipen Rave Kumar by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Sun, sharing news out of Malaysia, reports that children and young adults' increased use of personal listening devices is raising concerns about the risk of noise-induced hearing...
Photo credit: ALTEREDSNAPS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Pickleball, the national governing body for the newly popular sport, just announced the launch of its "quiet category" for pickleball equipment. The new category will promote products that...
Photo credit: Moose Photos by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health asked a nation-wide sample of parents with children ages 5-12 about their children's earbud and headphone use. Parents...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Kat Sezter, editorial associate at the Acoustical Society of America, asked that we help publicize the ASA’s latest podcast, and I’m glad to do that. I’m especially glad because it’s my first time on...
Photo credit: ELEVATE by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is music in restaurants becoming too loud? No, it’s not becoming too loud. Music in restaurants has been too loud for years! But award-winning food writer Clare Finney has a wonderful essay in the...
Photo credit: Pok Rie by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "Cancelling Noise" is the title of a wonderful essay in Canada’s The Globe and Mail. In the essay, Author Michael Harris describes the deleterious effects of noise pollution on humans and animals....
Photo credit: Dom J by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN reports that the corporate giant Starbucks announced the "Starbucks of the future" with a first store in Washington, D.C. According to reporters Jordan Valinsky and Eva Rothenberg, Starbucks opened...
Photo credit: sl wong by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The MedicalXpress website reports that researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered the biological mechanism of how noise causes hearing loss, opening up the possibility for prevention...