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Photo credit: Tembela Bohle by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Fox News reporter Melissa Rudy wrote an excellent piece on tinnitus. However, I have a few minor quibbles with what she wrote, and what audiologist Donald Troast said. But the main thrust of...
Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Tinnitus, commonly called ringing in the ears, is technically the perception of sound when there is no external sound stimulus. Tinnitus can be perceived as a high-pitched whistling sound,...
Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Science Alert website recently reported on research published in 2021 the shows a correlation between speech-in-noise difficulty and risk for developing dementia. Speech-in-noise...
Photo credit: Buro Millennial by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This report from Science Alert discusses research that auditory damage is linked to tinnitus. Reporter Jess Cockerill writes that tinnitus could be the brain’s way of coping with nerve damage...
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...
Photo credit: Grzegorz by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Scottish newspaper The Courier has a wonderful piece by opinion writer Rebecca Baird describing how she is hanging up her headphones after “16 solid years of blocking out the world.” Baird...
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”...
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...
Photo credit: Ivan Samkov by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition CNN published a piece last month by Susannah Hills, a pediatric airway surgeon and vice chair of the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in...