The world is getting louder. People cannot escape noise pollution in their everyday lives whether from traffic, infrastructure, music or more, but employees can and must be protected from excessive ...

A policy statement published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) this month is raising awareness about the damage that noise exposure has on both children and adults. The statement reviews ...

Living near heavy traffic could negatively impact your heart health. A European study, published in the journal Environmental Research, found that exposure to nighttime road traffic noise is linked to ...

22 million workers are exposed to hazardous occupational noise each year, a figure nearly equivalent to the population of Florida. Prolonged exposure to excessive noise levels can cause life-changing ...

Sufficiently intense sounds have the potential of disrupting all parts of the peripheral and central auditory system. Noise can have direct mechanical effects on the middle ear, such as ossicular and ...

Living in areas with consistently higher levels of noise from transportation is associated with a significantly higher risk of major adverse cardiac events compared with living in quieter areas, ...