Photo credit: Chokniti Khongchum by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on the Medical News website discusses research at Indiana University aiming to find targets to prevent hearing loss caused by antibiotics. The particular antibiotic class being...
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The toxic effect of noise
Photo credit: Platon Matakaev by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Leaps website features an article on the toxic effects of noise and what we aren't doing about it by freelance writer Eve Glicksman in its weekly newsletter. Glicksman spoke with me and...
Get your noise out of my ears
Photo credit: Ketut Subiyanto by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Get your noise out of my ears! That’s the title of a recent Freakonomics Radio podcast which was updated and re-released as pandemic lockdown noise levels have returned to pre-pandemic...
Reducing noise is smart public policy
Photo credit: Garvin St. Villier by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to this editorial in the Santa Fe New Mexican, reducing noise is smart public policy. We couldn’t agree more. As the editorial notes, noise from mufflers and drag racing was the...
October is National Protect Your Hearing Month
Image credit: CDC by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As this link from CDC tells us, October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. Noise causes hearing loss by damaging delicate cochlear structures. CDC also states that noise-induced hearing loss is the...
Can a single protein slow down age-related hearing loss?
Photo credit: Ksenia Chernaya by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from the University of Michigan’s Kresge Hearing Research Institute discusses genetic engineering to overexpress a protein in the cochlea of specially bred mice. The actual...
Major international conference on aircraft noise this November
Photo credit: Pixabay by Jamie Banks, MSc, PhD, President, Quiet Communities Inc., and Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The European Union Against Aircraft Nuisances, or UECNA, is sponsoring a major international conference, Tackling Aviation Noise, on...
Why does your car’s speedometer go to 160 mph?
Photo credit: Mike B by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Have you ever wondered why does your car’s speedometer go up to 160 miles per hour (mph)--or even 200 mph in the photo above--when your can might only be able to do 90 or 100? I have, but I never...
A wonderful newsletter from the UK Noise Association
Photo credit: Burst by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our UK noise colleague John Stewart just sent out the latest issue of the UK Noise Association’s newsletter, The Bottom Rung. I just read it. As the list of the articles show, this is an especially...