Photo credit: SHVETS production by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition "Why do I hear but not understand?" That is the title of one of the references in a recent article in Scientific Reports, published by the Nature publishing group in the United Kingdom. The...
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An animal model for detecting hearing loss?
Photo credit: Polina Tankilevitch by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Direct website reported on an article that covers a possible early detection tool for age-related hearing loss. In a special issue on bioinformatics and computational biology,...
Noise-induced hearing loss affects job performance
Photo credit: energepic.com by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to a recent report in BMJ Psychology, noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) affects job performance and work-related quality of life. The study showed that NIHL was negatively associated...
The search for quiet is ongoing
Photo credit: Alex Does Pictures by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In her article “The city’s search for quiet,” Dawn Attride writes that New York City is the loudest...
Of mice and men: hearing loss secrets hidden in mouse DNA?
Photo credit: Alexas Fotos by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to the NAU Review, published by Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, the answer to hearing loss may lie in mouse DNA. The Review reports that the director of NAU’s Cell and...
Hearing loss and cognition in France
Photo credit: NIC LAW by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition JAMA Network Open, the JAMA Network’s open access online journal, carried a report from France about hearing loss, hearing aids and cognition. The research was based on the CONSTANCES study, with...
Hearing aid use increases in elderly, but remains low
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition An article in JAMA Open Network from a research group at Johns Hopkins University reports that hearing aid use among the elderly has increased, but remains low. The data were collected as...
Upcoming webinar
Photo credit: Ingrid Buday, Founder NMNT by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Quiet Coalition has been notified that No Noise Toronto will be hosting a webinar on Oct. 21 about noise cameras. For those who don’t know what a noise camera is, it is like a...
Airport neighbors report restless nights of sleep
Photo credit: Stas Knop by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Readers of our posts already know that there are studies that link aircraft noise to loss of sleep, but I...