Photo credit: Max Fischer from Pexels by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition With the World Health Organization announcing that “over one billion young adults are at risk of permanent hearing loss due to unsafe...
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More on the link between dementia and hearing loss
Photo credit: Kindel Media from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On The Conversation, Thomas Littlejohns, an epidemiologist at Oxford, discusses his recent scientific publication about the link between hearing loss and dementia. This relationship...
Purple marks Disability Rights
Image courtesy of #WeThe15 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On August 19, more than 125 monuments around the world were bathed in purple light to recognize the worlds’ 1.2 billion people living with disabilities. This article from NPR states that at...
You can enjoy music and protect your hearing
Photo credit: Karol D from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist I highly recommend the Summer 2021 Entertainment issue of Hearing Health. It includes a range of articles on noise damage to hearing and how to prevent it. Music risk is a focus from school band...
Good hearing helps “cognitive super-agers”
Photo credit: Diabetes Care licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, and Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Although fewer than 1% of Americans reach the age of 100, Jane Brody, the New York Times, writes that recent findings...
Fireworks damage hearing
Photo credit: Jonas Von Werne from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist A recent article is a good reminder that fireworks can damage hearing. Fireworks are loud explosive blasts of sound that can cause permanent hearing loss, tinnitus or ringing in the ears, and...
Fireworks can permanently damage hearing
Photo credit: Kaique Rocha from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from television station WLKY in Louisville, Kentucky correctly warns that noise from fireworks can cause permanent hearing loss. The report doesn’t explicitly state this,...
Hearing loss crisis among musicians
by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist A recent article about the hearing loss crisis among musicians reports hearing loss as every musician’s worst nightmare and as devastating for a musician as losing a hand. Many professional musicians have permanent hearing problems...
COVID-19, hearing loss, tinnitus, and vertigo
Photo credit: Anton Uniqueton from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I recently wrote a short blog post about medical reports linking COVID-19 infection to tinnitus. Our noise colleague Yishane Lee at Hearing Health Foundation let us know that she...