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Photo credit: jan buchholtz licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition There’s an old saying that every cloud has a silver lining. I’m not sure that’s true, but many clouds--or in this case, no rain cloud in Las Vegas--may indeed...
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As I’ve written before, I don’t like special days or months. I think that if something is important, it should be thought about all the time, not just on a special day or month. But I’ve also acknowledged that these...
Photo credit: See-ming Lee licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Most people, most audiologists, and most doctors don’t know that noise has non-auditory health effects, but it does. The scientific evidence is ample and...
Photo credit: 7inchs by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cetaceans are whales. What’s leaving them stranded on China’s coasts? The Sixth Tone website--surprisingly (at least to me), sponsored by the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese Communist Party--claims...
Photo credit: Neil R licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition What’s the difference between a health problem and a public health problem? A health problem affects an individual, a patient. A public health problem affects populations,...
Photo credit: Soulful Pizza by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition does not endorse products or manufacturers and has no commercial or other relationships with any company or other organization, helping guarantee our independence. So I...
Photo credit: Patrick Pelster licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The headline in the print version of the Los Angeles Times is “The party police are watching you,” but the Times is really writing about noise police. Palm Springs...
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our noise colleague and my coauthor Jan Mayes has a wonderful, personal article in the current issue of Hearing Health Magazine, sharing with the reader how an unfortunate accident...
Photo credit: Maksim Goncharenok by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report on Medscape discusses a possible link between the Pfizer COVID vaccine and hearing loss. I think the Medscape headline overstates the case. A possible statistical association,...