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Photo credit: Bri Schneiter by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I developed tinnitus and hyperacusis after a one-time exposure to loud noise at a New Year’s Eve party at the end of 2017 and became a noise activist in December of 2014, trying to make the...
Photo credit: Elevate Digital by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition “Are you noise sensitive? Here’s how to tell.” That’s a good question, and the title of an article in WIRED magazine. Writer Amy Paturel starts her article with a sound (pun intended!)...
Photo credit: Christina Morillo by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The World Health Organization’s Ear and Hearing Care Programme announced its new publication, Hearing Aid Service Delivery Approaches for Low- and Middle-Income Settings. As WHO has...
Photo credit: Startup Stock Photos by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Our friend Yishane Lee, editor of Hearing Health Magazine and communications director at the Hearing Health Foundation, shared her fascinating report about the recent Association for...
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Tinnitus, commonly called ringing in the ears, is technically the perception of sound when there is no external sound stimulus. Tinnitus can be perceived as a high-pitched whistling sound,...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website recently reported on research published in 2021 the shows a correlation between speech-in-noise difficulty and risk for developing dementia. Speech-in-noise...
Photo credit: Hasan Albari by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Eureka Reports, the online news publication of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, reported that researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary discovered a loss of...
Photo credit: Keira Burton by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition NPR’s Life Kit site has a wonderfully simple cartoon with an accompanying soundtrack about protecting your ears to avoid hearing loss. I would broaden the title to “Avoid Auditory Damage”...
Photo credit: Vidal Balielo Jr. by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The title of this post is also the title of an article on the Association of American Medical College's website by a medical student at University of California Los Angeles and a surgical...