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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Photo credit: Azim Islam by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Our blog readers are familiar with my comments that individuals living with aircraft noise say that...
Photo credit: Hà Quốc Lập by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Apologies in advance for a digression into medical terminology, but it’s important for understanding the implications of this blog post’s title, which comes from a paper from Susan Hansell’s...
Photo credit: Min An by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition A recent report on the Medscape website is headlined: "Almost 50% of Global Dementia Cases May Be Preventable." Reporter Megan Brooks ably summarizes the latest report from the U.K.’s Lancet...
Photo credit: Lukas by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Hearing Review recently reported on research done at the University of Maryland showing that a region of the brain called the orbitofrontal cortex plays an important role in hearing and learning....