An estimated 60% of adolescents listened to music over safe limits. The American Academy of Pediatrics is warning parents and caregivers that excessive exposure to loud noises can be detrimental to ...

Ten years ago Jamie Banks started working from her home in the town of ­Lincoln, Mass. After a couple of months, the continuing racket from landscaping machines began to feel unendurable, even when ...

If a movie or TV show is too loud, you can always turn down the volume, but depending upon the way the sound was balanced, that can have the effect of making the dialogue impossible to hear. But the ...