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Photo credit: lil artsy by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The February 2025 issue of Frontiers in Public Health has an article by Chinese researchers reporting a correlation between noise exposure, occupational hearing loss and cognitive impairment. The...
Photo credit: Christina Morillo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Are bone conduction headphones safer for your ears? That’s a question that a reader named Bill asked The Naked Scientists website. The answer is simple: “No.” Bone conduction headphones...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana recently ran a story about hearing loss in children. As audiologist Brian Fligor notes, noise exposure from activities children and teens often engage in,...
Photo credit: Quốc Bảo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Nature (UK) publication Scientific Reports published a paper based on research done in Germany that surveyed about 400 amateur musicians and 400 professional musicians. A number of studies cited...
Photo credit: David Bartus by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times reported that new technology installed in Virginia State Parks helps colorblind people see fall leaf colors. The park released viewfinders built by SeeCoast Manufacturing that...
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...
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...
Photo credit: ELEVATE by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition As National Protect Your Hearing Month comes to a close, Katie Franklin, hard of hearing services coordinator for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, reminds us that...
Photo credit: Nicholas Githiri by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The full headline in Griffin Wayne’s recent HuffPost article is: "Certain headphones are safer for your ears. Doctors share the best ones for adults and kids." The headline is probably...