Photo credit: fauxels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I spoke to HealthWatch USA on Oct. 16 about the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health's recommended exposure limit (REL), specifically that it needs to be revised down. Kevin...
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The Golden Rule
Photo credit: RDNE Stock project by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise colleague, pioneering noise researcher Arline Bronzaft, PhD, wrote a wonderful essay in the newsletter of the Holy Trinity Church, located in the Inwood/Washington Heights...
CNN rates electric leaf blowers
Photo credit: Rodolfo Gaion by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Quiet Communities, Inc., the parent organization of The Quiet Coalition, was started 10 years ago by citizens concerned about the impacts of gas-powered leaf blower noise disrupting a quiet,...
Of mice and men: hearing loss secrets hidden in mouse DNA?
Photo credit: Alexas Fotos by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to the NAU Review, published by Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, the answer to hearing loss may lie in mouse DNA. The Review reports that the director of NAU’s Cell and...
Hearing loss and cognition in France
Photo credit: NIC LAW by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition JAMA Network Open, the JAMA Network’s open access online journal, carried a report from France about hearing loss, hearing aids and cognition. The research was based on the CONSTANCES study, with...
Noise exposure associated with hearing loss in women
Photo credit: Mikael Blomkvist by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Research from China, published in the open-access BMC Public Health, found that occupational noise exposure was associated with hearing loss and hypertension in female workers. We usually...
Is it bad to listen to music all the time?
Photo credit: Charlotte May by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is it bad to listen to music all the time? That is the question that Hussein, a teenager from Iraq asked the Curious Kids site, and reported on the U.S. edition of The Conversation. The...
A ‘silent revolution’ coming to California ports
Photo credit: Klaus by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Earlier this year, I wrote about the electrification of construction vehicles, ferries and tarmac vehicles in Norway. I didn’t think similar environmental progress would be made in the United States...
Bitcoin and AI endanger the environment
Photo credit: Tara Winstead by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Data processing centers for bitcoin mines and artificial intelligence (AI) endanger both health and the environment. There has been a wealth of reporting about noise from bitcoin mines and...