by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition March 3 is World Hearing Day. For several years now, the World Health Organization has celebrated World Hearing Day, each year with a special theme. This year’s theme is one near and dear to my heart: Prevention of...
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Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl opens up about hearing loss
Photo credit: Facundo Gaisler licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies On a recent Howard Stern Show, Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl said that...
Hearing loss still the butt of jokes
Photo credit: Neil Moralee licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Dr. Daniel Fink has raised the question about whether hearing loss is an...
Is hearing loss an inevitable part of aging?
Photo credit: Magda Ehlers from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is hearing loss an inevitable part of aging? I came to the conclusion that it isn’t in 2017 and presented that paper at the 12th Congress of the International Commission on...
Hearing loss down on the farm?
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This piece on Agriculture.com discusses noise-induced hearing loss. We city dwellers think of the countryside as being quiet, but that’s not correct for those who grow or raise the food we eat. As writer Lisa Foust Prater...
Musicians need to protect their hearing
by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist This article in Hypebot is yet another that asserts 85 decibels (dB) as point at which a noise level poses risk to musicians. It's true that music-induced hearing loss is permanent, painless, and preventable, but here are some...
There is nothing temporary about temporary threshold shift
This image by AlexChirkin has been dedicated to the public domain by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist This Healthy Hearing article on temporary threshold shift or muffled hearing after noise exposure varies between strong statements and caveats. I disagree with the...
Are we becoming acoustic refugees?
Photo credit: Gustavo Fring from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition When I sent one of my noise colleagues a draft post about the Discover article on how human noise overwhelms natural sea soundscapes for comment and correction, mentioning quiet...
Earplugs aren’t necklaces
Photo credit: Wendy Wei from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist A recent article in the IRN Post warns of hearing difficulties caused by loud music exposure at concerts. It starts off well by identifying the 70 dB noise limit. But the discussion switches to ≥85...