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Photo credit: Guduru Ajay bhargav by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In 1996, Nancy Nadler at New York City’s nonprofit Center for Hearing and Communication, working with The Quiet Coalition’s Arline Bronzaft and others, created and introduced...
Photo credit: Krizjohn Rosales by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Noise is unwanted and/or harmful sound. It has been known for some years that noise has adverse auditory and non-auditory health effects. These non-auditory adverse effects have been best...
Photo credit: Josh Sorenson by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The BBC recently ran an article by health reporter James Gallagher covering the myriad ways in which excessive noise can damage our well-being. Gallagher was the reporter on the BBC News World...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a New York Times article titled "35 Health Tips Experts Swear By," Dr. Frank Lin, Director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, gave this tip: “I make...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people’s hearing problems? That’s the headline of a recent BBC article. The BBC reports that five audiology departments have reported an...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition We can close our eyes and fall asleep on a sunny beach after lunch, but we cannot close our ears. Hearing evolved eons ago to help animals either find food or avoid being eaten, and we can hear even...
Photo credit: Afta Putta Gunawan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cincinnati television station WKRC reports that a "new" study published in BMJ Global Health shows that more than one billion young people are at risk of noise-induced hearing loss from...
Photo credit: fauxels by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition I spoke to HealthWatch USA on Oct. 16 about the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health's recommended exposure limit (REL), specifically that it needs to be revised down. Kevin...
Photo credit: Kaique Rocha by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The News Medical Life Sciences website reports on two studies presented at the current meeting of the European Society of Cardiology. The studies show that urban noise pollution was associated...