Photo credit: Fox by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Research out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shows that estrogen may help protect against hearing loss. Here’s a link to the research article for those who want to read it. It has long...
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Loss of auditory fibers discovered in individuals with tinnitus
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...
NPR’s unsound advice — 85 decibels is not safe
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I’m a big fan of NPR. I usually listen to "All Things Considered" and a few other programs if I’m in the car and I think these programs are among the best on the radio. But in this new...
Hear today, gone tomorrow
Photo credit: ALTEREDSNAPS by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Hear today, gone tomorrow. That’s the catchy title of a short article in the Royal Examiner, serving Warren County in the Shenandoah Valley from Front Royal, Virginia. The article correctly...
Protecting your ears to avoid hearing loss
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”...
Researching noise-induced hearing loss
Photo credit: Rodolfo Quirós by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A press release from the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus reports on assistant professor Nathaniel Greene's research on noise-induced hearing loss. As the article points out,...
Hospitals are noisy. They don’t have to be.
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...
Hearing loss is very common after age 71
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In the United States, hearing loss is very common after age 71. This is generally a well-known fact, but not to the level of detail reported by audiologist Nicholas Reed and colleagues at Johns...
A new tinnitus therapy?
Photo credit: SHVETS production by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Tinnitus is commonly known as ringing in the ears, but the technical definition is the perception of sound without an external sound stimulus. One of the things that has powered my noise...