Photo credit: Edoardo Tommasini by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A Tik-Tok famous general practitioner in Singapore is advising concertgoers to wear earplugs and use sunscreen. I don’t follow social media at all, but I’m glad to know that there’s useful...
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Is restaurant music becoming too loud?
Photo credit: ELEVATE by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Is music in restaurants becoming too loud? No, it’s not becoming too loud. Music in restaurants has been too loud for years! But award-winning food writer Clare Finney has a wonderful essay in the...
The everyday noise that can cause hearing loss in minutes
Photo credit: Toni Ferreira by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Modern life is too loud. Everyday noise exposure can cause noise-induced hearing loss, the only type of hearing loss that is entirely preventable. Many noise exposures are involuntary — the...
Should you be wearing earplugs to concerts?
Photo credit: Wendy Wei by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Should you be wearing earplugs to concerts? That’s the question posed by Health.com writer Maggie O’Neill and the answer from both her and me is an unequivocal, “yes!” O’Neill cites a number of...
What musicians can teach us about noise and hearing loss
Photo credit: Athena by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Musicians know a lot about noise and what it does to their hearing. That’s the topic discussed in a report on CNET by writer Jessica Rendall. She reports that noise causes hearing loss...
Florida’s new loud music law
Photo credit: Nazly Ahmed 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 Lately, more cities and states across the United States are introducing...
Does listening to music improve our lives?
Photo credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Does listening to music improve our lives? A lot of people listen to music, and music makes a lot of people happy, but does it really improve our lives? Based on a systematic...
Personal sound zones in cars?
Photo credit: Hasan Gulec from Pexels by Jan L. Mayes, MSc, Audiologist, Member, The Quiet Coalition Will future cars have individual sound zones for each passenger? Scientists are exploring an algorithm that would let each passenger listen to their own audio without...
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...